So here's a graph:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/276306/global-apple-ipho...
What happened to the many hundreds of millions of iPhones sold before 2017? Landfill?
https://www.statista.com/statistics/276306/global-apple-ipho...
What happened to the many hundreds of millions of iPhones sold before 2017? Landfill?
How many Android devices are still in use after 7 years? And receiving updates? I suspect these are generating e waste at a much higher rate than iPhones but would love to see some comparable figures
I too would like to know those stats for both Apple and Android. I suspect it's rather low though. I'm pretty sure e-waste just gets sent to China these days.
This is a shame because there are a lot of old tablets and phones that would be useful as general computing devices.
I don't think it's necessary. They should just allow full user ownership and let the community use the phones as they wish. Including the Android's closed drivers, which should become FLOSS after 10 years or so.
I'm on year 2.5 with iOS and all three of our phones are as smooth as the day we bought them and I expect to receive at least another 2.5 years of support.