Apple says electronics recycler “illegally” reselling over 100k iPhones, iPads
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Re: Apple says electronics recycler “illegally” reselling over 100k iPhones, iPads
#2Reuse is better than recycling, so what's the problem?
Re: Apple says electronics recycler “illegally” reselling over 100k iPhones, iPads
#3Well, very technically speaking, they did recycle those iPhones.
Why is Apples so obsessed with controlling the entirety of their devices' life cycle, anyway?
Re: Apple says electronics recycler “illegally” reselling over 100k iPhones, iPads
#4Reuse is better than recycling, so what's the problem?
Their contract may have not allowed it .. which shows how shitty the contract was.
Apple doesn't care about preventing environmental damage. Fixing/Refubing and selling is WAY better for the planet than trying to extract all the components, melt them down, and build new product.
This disposable phone world and infinite growth economy has got to stop.
Re: Apple says electronics recycler “illegally” reselling over 100k iPhones, iPads
#5Well, very technically speaking, they did recycle those iPhones. Why is Apples so obsessed with controlling the entirety of their devices' life cycle, anyway?
Sales. Money. Power.
Re: Apple says electronics recycler “illegally” reselling over 100k iPhones, iPads
#6Reuse is better than recycling, so what's the problem?
Their contract may have not allowed it .. which shows how shitty the contract was. Apple doesn't care about preventing environmental damage. Fixing/Refubing and selling is WAY better for the planet than trying to extract all the components, melt them down, and build new product. This disposable phone world and infinite growth economy has got to stop.
Easier to do that if software requirements don't keep growing. If people were satisfied with lower resolution photos and videos, lower-quality graphics in mobile games, etc, etc, they'd find it much harder to release newer models and have such great sales numbers.
Re: Apple says electronics recycler “illegally” reselling over 100k iPhones, iPads
#7Apple is probably legally in the right here, since the recycler violated their contract.
But Apple seems very much in the wrong here on an ethical level. If the devices have resale value, then they should be resold, not destroyed! Reduce and Reuse are both higher priorities than Recycle.
Re: Apple says electronics recycler “illegally” reselling over 100k iPhones, iPads
#8Reuse is better than recycling, so what's the problem?
Their contract may have not allowed it .. which shows how shitty the contract was. Apple doesn't care about preventing environmental damage. Fixing/Refubing and selling is WAY better for the planet than trying to extract all the components, melt them down, and build new product. This disposable phone world and infinite growth economy has got to stop.
IT's not clear to me what the difference is. What exactly are they recycling, and how. I can personally see how refurb/debugging an old iPad might be harder then just replacing all the cheaper parts (caps, PCBs, cheaper ICs) and retesting more expensive components; especially at scale.
Also, even if they are melting them down and literally recasting them: ALU has pretty good recasting credentials.
Re: Apple says electronics recycler “illegally” reselling over 100k iPhones, iPads
#9I wonder what that contract said. "These devices are to be recycled in a way that creates the maximum amount of CO2"
Re: Apple says electronics recycler “illegally” reselling over 100k iPhones, iPads
#10Well, very technically speaking, they did recycle those iPhones. Why is Apples so obsessed with controlling the entirety of their devices' life cycle, anyway?
Are apple still on the hook for warranty for those iProducts?