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Well thats a somewhat shortsighted take. Obviously by creating a market demand for used pixels you finance the people that constantly buy the newest pixel... Any phone brand would thrive under conditions like that.
But either way, they are just dogshit phones and thats enough of a reason imo.
To give you some idea how little impact buying or not buying a pixel has: if you were comparing it to buying new, keeping it for six years and every dollar of your purchase went directly to google as profit, the $800 phone would be 1/322million-th of the revenue generated by that segment of the company during the time you use the phone. You’d be granting google 0.0000003% of their revenue in that segment over that period.
Because the phone isn’t actually all profit, and has to be designed, manufactured, marketed, warehoused, transported to market etc. the actual impact of buying or not buying a pixel phone on googles bottom line is even lower.
I'm not sure about that. By buying used, I'd say you're at minimum repurposing what would otherwise become e-waste. I don't think you can say 100% of people selling their used phone are upgrading to the same manufacturer, either. Perhaps they agree your point in them being "dogshit phones" and want to recoup their loss as they side- or up-grade.