Other iPhone SE 2024

[magicMac]

Just want to through out a prediction:

*The iPhone SE 2024 will be the first Carbon Neutral iPhone*

With apple working through the product line-up anyway, I feel the iPhone SE could likely be next on the list because Apple can promote the re-use and re-purpose of chassis and displays from old stock of fully working iPhone 14s, alongside refurbished/repaired inventory and customer trade-ins. This alone has a good environmental benefit, but they may do other things with the components, packaging and distribution of the model that make it carbon neutral as well, aided by lower volume production being less energy intense. Who knows, Apple may even perform final assembly in US or Europe too, although thats probably less likely. Either way, certainly would make an "event" of the launch in spring, accompanied by many marketing videos showing new recycling tech they're using, and their new in-house 5G modem.

Thoughts?

 

[JPack]

But it won’t use the exact same chassis as iPhone 14. Everything from the chassis to logic board to the display are new materials. The design is different and so are the specs. We know for example BOE and LGD have successfully bid for the OLED.

 

[turbineseaplane]

I'm not really sure the phone being "carbon neutral" does anything for actual sales

It's good for virtue signaling and greenwashing their overall operation though, I would agree with that for sure!

 

[BoredTechEnthusiast]

While it's possible only if they push for it hard, as of now I'd say they are far from what would be a completely "Carbon Neutral" iPhone, the bottleneck being a few suppliers like (BOE, SDC and LGD etc), they basically buy Green Credits and not exactly production using completely Green (Solar) Energy. Except the display and few other components, they are almost 80% there, I reckon.
Yes, Carbon Neutrality matters to me. Maybe I am one of those few people from the camp of advocating more and more "Carbon Neutral" products.