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What Happens to iPhones Traded into Apple?

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What happens to the iPhones provided to Apple on trade-ins?

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Similar to other devices, when an iPhone is handed over for exchanges during trade, it must still meet certain requirements, otherwise its future is bleak. So, if the iPhone is somewhat functional and operational, Apple mends it and markets it for sale in developing countries including India, Latin America and Africa, for instance. As a result, Apple is not only able to sell the device once again but it also rounds up competition in the second-hand smartphone market. In case the iPhone is too old, then it is demolished by Daisy, Apple’s disassembly robot which has a capacity to disassemble 200 iPhones in an hour and recover valuable recycled materials and is helping in waste management and assisting the cause of Apple.
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I love how Apple can say sorry we can’t fix your phone (when it really is something fixable) but will take that same phone and refurbish it for resell.
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Latin American here: Apple doesn’t have a refurshible market down here, they only sell new ones. So the old iPhone stays there. Now the old parts can be true
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You got it wrong buddy, India does not allow imports of refurbished phones. Only refurbished devices that were originally sold in India can be sold.
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What if the screen broken and after market? And the battery?
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I tried to trade an iPad Air 2 yesterday and they only offered $5
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Funny how Apple told me Iphones can't be repaired when I had a problem with mine
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It also helps restrict the availability of spare parts, most of which can only be obtained from other donor devices
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Plus, if you forget to format the memory several times to insure your personal information is completely erased, they can record and sell that information to ANYONE willing to pay for it.
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Let's not forget that this is also the company that will not under any circumstance allow parts to be sold to those who wish to fix their own product. So you can either take your device to an independent repair shop who might have the part you need, you can throw it out, or you can give it to Apple who will then do a sub-par job fixing it and resell it for a nice profit.
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and now it also serves as a way to keep working parts away from repair shops since they are making it harder and harder to acquire
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I personally thought they were also "mining" materials such as gold and other to resell it (when the phones are almost destroyed or too old)
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Because then it won’t be cycled in the aftermarket
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Absent from the content was the idea that they don’t want to continue to support a large base of relatively obsolete software. This allows them to focus more effort on developing new software, not patching old software to try to pull off new features.
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Correction here: apple doesn’t sell used iPhones here in India. They are not allowed
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