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		AuthorizedCust on Oct 4, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pixel 8 Pro Your premise is wrong. Old phones that have economic life get cleaned up and re-sold. The fact that manufacturers tweak phones annually does not change this.

rurp on Oct 4, 2023 [–]

Based on the numbers I found from a few minutes of searching you are incorrect. Some phones get resold or reused, most do not. Only 25% of people are using a secondhand phone and the phone population is increasing at 5x the human rate.

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