>Okay, this is your view, and we have a disagreement. We'll just have to agree to disagree :) The number of phones wasted a year due to non-reparability is a f

>Okay, this is your view, and we have a disagreement. We'll just have to agree to disagree :) The number of phones wasted a year due to non-reparability is a fact, not an opinion like vanilla tasting better than chocolate. US for example, spends around 80B annually for new phones, 3B annually for repairs, with 300M smartphone users. From this you can dig further or make reasonable estimates of a lot of behavior. > That is not accurate, Apple for instance, chokes the supply chain by banning sale of components to repair shops. I have family that both works at phone repair shops and that have iPhones, and they both repair them and get them repaired quite regularly. There is literally over a dozen iPhone repair shops in town, town size ~200k. You can find more information here https://www.google.com/search?q=iphone+repair+shops https://www.google.com/search?q=iphone+repair+shops People generally don't throw out a phone because it's not repairable. They throw it out because there is a better, nicer, more featured one. And of those people I know that do get rid of them, they almost all sell to one of those places that pays you for scrap and then recycles the usable parts.