On the other hand, if the original owners want the machines actually destroyed and not resold then I don't see the problem here.
I think apple should run a refurb but they wouldn't as that would depress their retail price.
The devices are recycled just for parts. Even the motherboard will have parts removed and reused.
It's a lot more work than flipping the laptop on eBay.
Like the most wrong I've ever been.
Well once I made a marmite pizza, other than that I've never been so wrong in my life
I think people should at least make a good faith effort to look this shit up before gettin' all snarky:
It's not just "unfortunate": our wildly consumptive and wasteful nature is a crime against future generations.
It's not just that our consumption and waste production are at record levels, to the point that we have damaged our climate!, but that they continue to increase at exponential rates.
All of this central control assumes the central control will still be there in the future. Someday, apple will cease to exist, and when it does, there will be millions of unverified bricks that used to be computers.
Recyclers are going to have to have to make it worthwhile to the businesses they source their product from, and be a little bit more upfront about it, if they want to recycle these devices. What they want to do is whine to Apple so they can continue to go behind their customer's backs like they do now with every other device.
So he stole those then? Because he's not the rightful owner right? Even trash belongs to someone.
https://twitter.com/rdklinc/status/1617541547469193217
> Wrong -- it means that 1000 of these devices were dumped from an institution to a recycler without even bothering to log out first. And these apathetic institutions don't return calls when asked to unlock because they want the machines destroyed.