Market for used iPhone, iPad and Mac are not so small even compared to the official sales of Apple. Only in the United States, and only through an auction eBay «apple" devices during the year have been sold for almost $ 2 billion.
According to the Open Systems Publications, half of the amount accounted for iPhone smart phones of all models. The share of 19% of the iPad, and Mac - 20%. IPod, the sales of which occupy less than 1% in revenue Apple, on eBay holds a share of 7%. Apple itself for the last quarter earned $ 37.4 billion, and on the iPhone of them account for 53%. Followed by tablets iPad (16%) and computers Mac (15%).
Officially, Apple wary of support machines purchased in the secondary market. But Apple CEO Tim Cook, recently responding to a question about the program for the exchange of the old iPhone, said that the high resale value of the iPhone is to expand the "apple" of the ecosystem. As a result, more people are taking advantage of new iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Internet service eBay is actively used by many companies that buy used gadgets Apple.Some of them followed through intermediaries resell the units to other countries.