True, however the justification to buy a new phone while already using a ‘perfectly good but older model’, is that they know they will be able to sell the ‘perfectly good but older model’ for a good enough price.
Thus, this idea that buying a second hand pixel mean money does not go google is flawed.
Eh, I see what you’re saying, but I think there’s always going to be a market for second hand hardware. And what new phone they decide to get, which might not necessarily be Google, isn’t going to be influenced by the purchaser, I don’t think.
Unless you do like people with iPhones do and you still pay premium prices for used phones… that I could see incentivizing Google specifically as holding value becomes a reason to buy them, as is true with Apple. But I don’t think eliminating the incentive for a second hand market altogether is really reasonably possible, personally. May as well pull a Google phone out of the ecosystem and deGoogle it. Who knows? Maybe you sell it yourself years down the line to someone needing a very cheap phone and end up introducing someone else to nonGoogle or Apple OS’s.
If someone is selling the phone, I think in 90% of cases they’ve already bought a new one and migrated their data to it.
True, however the justification to buy a new phone while already using a ‘perfectly good but older model’, is that they know they will be able to sell the ‘perfectly good but older model’ for a good enough price.
Thus, this idea that buying a second hand pixel mean money does not go google is flawed.
Eh, I see what you’re saying, but I think there’s always going to be a market for second hand hardware. And what new phone they decide to get, which might not necessarily be Google, isn’t going to be influenced by the purchaser, I don’t think.
Unless you do like people with iPhones do and you still pay premium prices for used phones… that I could see incentivizing Google specifically as holding value becomes a reason to buy them, as is true with Apple. But I don’t think eliminating the incentive for a second hand market altogether is really reasonably possible, personally. May as well pull a Google phone out of the ecosystem and deGoogle it. Who knows? Maybe you sell it yourself years down the line to someone needing a very cheap phone and end up introducing someone else to nonGoogle or Apple OS’s.