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Apple will update iPhones for at least 5 years in rare public commitment
(arstechnica.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
What the recycling company did with the phones is completely irrelevant. The point is that Apple was advertising that these devices would be refurbished when they were sending them out to be destroyed.
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/18/100000-iphones-stolen-instead-of-scrapped/
No one even knew about this until Apple sued said recycling company because they were not destroying them. They dropped the lawsuit because of all the bad press it was bringing them.
When did Apple claim that? Sure if you send them a one year old phone, they will refurbish it (they will also pay you several hundred dollars to take the device off your hands). But they've never refurbished several year old models. Those have always been recycled (destroyed) regardless of what condition they are in.
Before this event.