Apple Shrunk the iPhone’s Carbon Footprint. There’s a Way to Shrink It Even Further | Ensuring users can hang onto their phones as long as possible would help reduce the biggest source of emissions…::Ensuring users can hang onto their phones as long as possible would help reduce the biggest source of emissions: producing phones in the first place.
But…. The Sacred Profits!?
I mean, Apple has been ahead of the competition when it comes to phone longevity. The 6S got its final OS update last year. Android phones from 2015 aren’t getting first-party support in 2020, nevermind 2022. It’s nice that some Android manufacturers are finally saying that they’ll offer longer support for their devices, but I’ll believe that once said support is actually here.
I’m supposing my Pixel 6 isn’t covered by said promise of support either.
if you’re european, the fairphone lineup is a great option. the FP2 was released around 2016 and just ended sofware support in 2023. plus i believe they’ll try to sell them in the US.
What about the poor shareholders??
As long as they can keep people on the platform, they keep the cash from the app store flowing.
Reduce, reuse, recycle in that order. Using less of something we’ll always have a way bigger impact than recycling it or reusing it. This goes for electronics or anything else.
Force manufacturers to offer official replacement parts for 10 years with no profit margin, at least for common repairs like batteries, displays/glass, cameras etc. (basically everything except the logic board I guess).
Do the same for software updates and enforce compatibility (i.e. don’t lock out users of the new Apple Watch because they have on older iPhone for example).
Not going to happen because it’s “not feasible” to manufacture hardware for 10 year old devices or whatever.
They already can and the dumb battery laws ain’t going to change shit. The majority is still going to get a new phone every two years.
my dad is debating buying a new phone because the battery’s cooked on his SE 2nd gen. the laws make a lot of sense for “set and forget” customers.
He can go get it repaired. Your father is also clearly an edge case.
he is not. anyone older than 30-40 years often just want to keep their phones. hell, even my mom had the same huawei p20 lite up until 2022.
