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Can you still buy them newly produced, or is that the cost for old inventory? I believe it's the latter, which is an artificially low cost- it doesn't reflect t
by fnbr 11y ago
Can you still buy them newly produced, or is that the cost for old inventory? I believe it's the latter, which is an artificially low cost- it doesn't reflect the cost of manufacturing, but rather is the highest price that the market will pay for an outdated phone that phone companies already have in inventory.
- pen2l 11y agoNot to mention, Apple products past three generations are unusable. My old iPhone 4S phone is so slow that it's practically unusable.
- Yhippa 11y agoWhy is that? I booted up an old iPod touch that was based on the iPhone 4 and that thing is unusable. I would have thought it would degrade gracefully and still run as performant as it did with the old software on it but it runs so slow it's unusable.
- pen2l 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
- joshuapants 11y agoProbably not even new old-stock iPhones, but actually used ones. I wonder if e-cycling old high-end devices by refurbishing them and selling them to low-income markets isn't a better choice than ramping up manufacturing on necessarily crappy phones.