When you buy a new smartphone, what do you do with the old device? It was seeking to answer this question that the Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) has done its newest research, which has generated interesting data regarding the fate of iPhones and older Android devices.
According to survey data, 43% of old iPhones are given away in trade-in, as a way to reduce the value of new devices. In comparison, only 14% of retired Android devices have this fate – which can be explained by the higher value of Apple devices. The difference is more or less the same as that observed in 2021.
Also noteworthy was the large percentage (54%) of Android smartphone owners who do not dispose of them. The CIRP pointed out that, in addition to the lower value, which discourages trade-ins15% of iPhone buyers previously used an Android device, in order to keep the old device in case they don’t like the new one, in addition to completely migrating the data.
The percentage of older Android smartphones sold (4%) or given to friends or family (11%) is also lower than iPhones, which registered 7% and 13% in these same categories, respectively. The number of damaged devices was the same for both (8%), while recycled ones were 9% among iPhones and 6% among Androids.
It is worth remembering that it is not just among buyers that iPhones are most popular in trade-in. As we showed last week, intermediaries of smartphones coming from trade-in they prefer iPhones precisely because of their higher value, which facilitates the process of achieving their profit margins.
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