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Ironic comment considering world population is 8 billion

• rcstank 3y ago
  Not too ironic considering many are too young to have phones, or too poor to have them.
• cjensen 3y ago
  Fair.
  • kurthr 3y ago
    I'm gonna support your point. I'm not buying that 3x more phones were trashed as sold. New cell phone sales are under 2B/year. Industry hoped they would continue rising after 2016, but they've plateaued around 1.8B. Of those about 200M are still flip/dumb phones. Ownership time (in the pipeline) is increasing not falling. I don't believe 5.3B became waste unless many B people suddenly decided to do without (in 2022). That seems unlikely unless it just some random definition of watste. Sure there might even be (8-9 years of production) 16B phones laying around somewhere outside of landfill so why did they become get trashed in '22? Can we blame 3G? https://www.sellcell.com/how-many-mobile-phones-are-sold-each-year/ https://www.sellcell.com/how-many-mobile-phones-are-sold-eac...
• phire 3y ago
  Still, an average of one brand new phone per person every 18 months seems very high. Don't forget that includes almost a billion children under the age of 8 who typically get hand-me-downs phones from their parents. And people in 3rd world countries. And old people.
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• aaron695 3y ago
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