> I bought my iPhone 8 two years ago thinking of it as a 5 year investment.
That's exactly what's wrong, that users don't feel compelled to upgrade. It's bad for business.
That's exactly what's wrong, that users don't feel compelled to upgrade. It's bad for business.
I'd say the biggest e-waste offender right now is the server market. Enterprises are replacing entire data centers full of servers every 3-4 years because of depreciation and OPEX efficiency upgrades.
For consumer devices? Very unlikely. Do you have a citation?
> has a trade-in recycling program
Just because you send something off to be recycled doesn't mean it actually ends up being recycled. It's much better off to not have to recycle in the first place at all (eg. by making your hardware easy to repair, which Apple is notoriously bad at).
"So far, we’ve identified recycled alternatives for 24 different grades of plastic, allowing us to use an average of 38 percent recycled plastic across 82 components for products released this year."
https://www.apple.com/euro/environment/pdf/a/generic/Apple_E...
On a side note, I would like to see some figures how much energy and materials are actually spent when replacing something like a phone, compared to things like driving to work each day, running the AC for 12+ hours a day, flying around the globe once or twice a year or eating meat and dairy products every day of the week. I would be surprised if it’s even remotely significant compared to these things (yes this is a cynical and not very constructive argument to make, but perfectly rational)
This is good for their business.