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Don't send your iDevice to a landfill. Apple stores accept any of their products for recycling at no charge and you can also mail them in.
by alayne 12y ago
Don't send your iDevice to a landfill. Apple stores accept any of their products for recycling at no charge and you can also mail them in.
- giaour 12y agoYes, but gold jewelry is supposed to retain some of its value. If the best you can do with a used Apple Watch is send it to Cupertino then it's a much less responsible purchase than a similarly priced Rolex, which can easily be resold.
- serf 12y agoGold jewelry (an already shoddy investment) that becomes obsolete as tech advances. I never thought about it that way. It's funny to think that in 20-30 years there may be a cross section of retro-computer enthusiast/gold watch enthusiast. Who'd have predicted that?
- Alterlife 12y agoGold jewelry, atleast in India, is sold by weight, and not volume, with a percentage markup for workmanship. This development doesn't change the value of Gold as an investment. The iWatch would be lighter as a result of using this new technology. This reduces the value of the Gold it contains, but increases the iWatch's quality as a techology device.
- giaour 12y agoGold jewelry is sold by weight everywhere. Except by Apple, who will sell their watch for whatever they feel like, knowing that consumers will compare the band's price to that of a visually similar but far more valuable classic gold band.
- giaour 12y agoIt's not so much an investment as a way to keep up with changing tastes. It's very common to "trade in" old jewelry for something new -- your jeweler will pull the stones from the old piece, melt it down, and make you something new. Will this be possible with Apple gold? Maybe, but it sounds like the salvageable quantity from a watch band will be enough to make a ring, not another watch band.
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