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   Darren (djdarren@mendeddrum.org)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 22:26:15 JST Darren

   It’s just been pointed out to me that the reason Apple runs a trade-in programme for older devices is so they can reduce the size of the used market, and has fuck all to do with recycling.

   That’s blown my tiny mind.

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     Darren (djdarren@mendeddrum.org)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 22:26:14 JST Darren

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     Further to this, as I get older and (hopefully) more wise to the world, one of the things that’s really hit me is how everything has a price. Everything.

     In this situation, Apple has decided that it’s worth them giving someone a £150 discount on a new phone in order to guarantee that they’ll make more money selling newer phones.

     As someone who never really thinks about economy, it’s amazing to me that people’s brains work that way on an industrial scale.

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     Darren (djdarren@mendeddrum.org)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 22:26:22 JST Darren

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     According to this article, they shred literal tons of devices, regardless of whether they’re serviceable. Just yoink the battery and shred the rest.

     https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-04-18/apple-iphone-recycling-program-has-secrets?embedded-checkout=true

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     Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 22:32:02 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     @clacke I know that government devices require shredding to prevent some previously unknown recovery technique from extracting government information. I don't know whether this is why.
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 00:18:21 JST clacke

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     • Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
     @lnxw37j1 @DJDarren It said they shred everything, not just storage.