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That's not much better. Another phone goes to landfill because not even apple was able to repair it due to their horrendous practicices. It took me half an hour
by tty2300 7y ago
That's not much better. Another phone goes to landfill because not even apple was able to repair it due to their horrendous practicices. It took me half an hour to remove a battery from an iPhone and I had to get the hair dryer out to melt the glue. With other devices I just unscrew a bracket holding the battery down and it takes me 5 minutes.
- applecrazy 7y ago> Another phone goes to landfill That's disingenuous. Apple has a recycling program, where they take apart every component to be reused or recycled into new materials.[1] [1]: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/04/apple-adds-earth-day-donations-to-trade-in-and-recycling-program/ https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/04/apple-adds-earth-day-...
- r3bl 7y agoHas a recycling program =/= everyone who ever purchased an iPhone is using that recycling program. 7.8 million "Apple devices"[0] in 2018 is a lot, but an average iPhone is far more likely to end up on a landfill. If it were easy to extract the battery, that wouldn't be such a problem. [0] They group them all together and I can't find any other metric: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/04/apple-expands-global-recycling-programs/ https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/04/apple-expands-global-...
- saagarjha 7y agoYes, but phones that Apple swaps out generally do get recycled.