A large number of scrapped second-hand iPhones flow into the Chinese market丨HomePod's new screen is exposed

Scrapped second-hand apples flow into the market

I believe that some friends have used Apple's trade-in and recycling services, but everyone must be curious, what are these old devices taken by Apple for, are they really disassembled and scrapped?

According to the latest Bloomberg news report, Apple is suing mobile phone recycler GEEP because of this matter, because mobile phone recycler GEEP secretly took Apple's scrapped devices and sold them as second-hand devices.

According to the news, Apple previously reached an agreement with mobile phone recycler GEEP, paying a fee for mobile phone recycler GEEP to process 250,000 Apple end-of-life devices per year.

But GEEP, a mobile phone recycler, found that many of the devices were still usable, so they secretly shipped 100,000 iPhones to China for sale, profiting from second-hand platforms.

Apple said it had sent 530,000 iPhones, 25,000 iPads and 19,000 Apple Watches to GEEP, a phone recycler, over a two-year period, before the company found that GEEP underreported 99,975 iPhones.

However, because Apple does not want to expose this kind of thing to the public, it recently canceled the lawsuit.

HomePod screen version component

There has been a lot of news that the HomePod will launch a Pro version with a screen, and according to the latest supply chain news, the screen components of the product have been exposed.

The exposer posted the new screen component of the HomePod on the Internet, which looks like a circular screen.

In fact, in the tvOS17.4 system version, some developers have found the code of the new HomePod, which shows that HomePod will have a screen for displaying content in the future, and the code of this screen is B720.

However, judging from the news, this product is still in internal testing, and it was revealed that Apple may not launch a HomePod product with a screen this year so soon.

It's hard to imagine, just add a screen, why does Apple develop it for so many years, is it really to pursue the ultimate?