Apple sues Canadian recycling firm for reselling 100k devices, not destroying

Re:Apple sues Canadian recycling firm for reselling 100k dev... by fsflover on Monday October 05, 2020 @09:47AM (#24687718)

> This is not the issue at hand.

> Apple contracted a recycler to destroy the devices, and those devices made it out to the market, breaking contractual obligations.

There are definitely broken obligations, but who invented those obligations in the first place and why? Apple did it for profit and user control, against environment and ethics. This is the actual problem here.

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Re:Apple sues Canadian recycling firm for reselling 100k dev... by macspoofing on Monday October 05, 2020 @10:09AM (#24687883)

>but who invented those obligations in the first place and why?

Contract law. If you want to change the entire legal regime underpinning these kinds of contracts, that's a big (and separate) discussion.

>Apple did it for profit and user control, against environment and ethics

You don't know that. You're speculating. It's not clear that this policy against environmental initiatives or it is unethical. Besides, environmental concerns need to be balanced with other factors. Our company contracts IronMountain to destroy old disk drives - our interpretation of this is that IronMountain will in fact securely destroy those drives and not resell them on the market, EVEN IF that would be more friendly to the environment.

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