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That's not much better. Another phone goes to landfill because not even apple was able to repair it due to their horrendous practicices. It took me half an hour to remove a battery from an iPhone and I had to get the hair dryer out to melt the glue. With other devices I just unscrew a bracket holding the battery down and it takes me 5 minutes.

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> Another phone goes to landfill

That's disingenuous. Apple has a recycling program, where they take apart every component to be reused or recycled into new materials.[1]

[1]: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/04/apple-adds-earth-day-...

Has a recycling program =/= everyone who ever purchased an iPhone is using that recycling program.

7.8 million "Apple devices"[0] in 2018 is a lot, but an average iPhone is far more likely to end up on a landfill. If it were easy to extract the battery, that wouldn't be such a problem.

[0] They group them all together and I can't find any other metric: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/04/apple-expands-global-...

Yes, but phones that Apple swaps out generally do get recycled.

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