I wrote before about this few times https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21895534 Some people were not believing me in earlier posts. Now they have their proof.

I can say that Apple was actively practicing this as early as iPhone 4.

They at least once tried to threaten online marketplaces selling wholesale refurbished Apple iStuff.

Alibaba prohibited wholesale of refubished electronics specifically because of that, knowing this from an ex Alibaba employee: https://rule.alibaba.com/rule/detail/2047.htm look at point 17.3.

As I understand, they no longer actively enforce that now.