The AIR, especially if they discontinue it and make users go back to bricks or folds for way more $$$$.
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iPhone Air The first iPhone in history to be worth more the next year than when you bought it.
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Just stop. They wouldn’t discontinue it if it was successful.
You mean like what happened in 2023?
www.theguardian.com
First-generation Apple iPhone sells at auction in US for $190,000
Device launched by Steve Jobs in 2007 with promise to ‘reinvent the phone’ sells for 300 times original price
Okay, whatever. 
Seriously, what is the purpose of threads like that? 🤔
Seriously, what is the purpose of threads like that? 🤔
Because the primary purpose of a trade in program is to reduce the number of used devices on the market and maintain prices of the newest models.
Your friend may be better off selling it to someone else on swappa or FB Market or Ebay and get some money back and then buy the air. Or should have waited till sometime in November when Apple's extended Holiday Return Policy kicks in (at least in the U.S).
Thanks, she really wanted to go thru Apple for couple reasons…so another question…how long before they put 17 in trade rotation…the whole year till 18 or sooner (maybe 6 months)? Thanks in advance.
Apple doesn't allow you to trade in any iPhone that is currently available for sale through Apple. This is why you also cannot trade in the 16e, because it is still being sold by Apple. Have to wait for the iPhone model to go out of production first. And like others have said it is also to reduce the number of used iPhones floating around.
If Apple allowed people to do what you are proposing, people would buy on iPhone model and use it as an extended trial and then after a month or so take it back and try and different model, and rinse and repeat over and over again. This would lead to an enormous amount of abuse. No company is going to allow this.
Except each rinse would cost several hundred dollars, because the trade-in value would be far less than the new price.
A bit like trading in a car a few months after buying it new. Doing so would cost you many $1000s, but make the dealer very happy.
Apple’s business is dying. Sam and Jony are about to launch a revolutionary device that will turn the iPhone into the next Nokia 3310. We’ve seen time and time again how the inability to innovate ultimately leads to failure.
That’s why Apple has put a backup plan in place: they’ll release the Air and immediately discontinue it, so they can then sell the remaining units for $190,000 apiece at an auction.
That’s why Apple has put a backup plan in place: they’ll release the Air and immediately discontinue it, so they can then sell the remaining units for $190,000 apiece at an auction.
Why would they take models they actively produce? They have all the supply they could want, your trade in is worthless to them.
It wasn’t an argument. It was a question. Did you not see the question mark at the end?
If it is a one time product and grows a cult following it could become valuable, I’m not sure what that would look like, I doubt it would ever be worth over a grand it was new but stranger things have happened. Saying that, it us very unlikely because phones are a product that the majority want the latest.