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I've started buying refurb, and will be heavily considering my upcoming electronics purchases. I encourage others to reduce consumption from companies which kowtow to this dangerous administration's demands and rhetoric.

I've been boycotting Amazon as best I can for nearly a decade though since they had ambulances outside their warehouses and delivery workers pissing in gatorade bottles but reducing consumption of toxic brands can be done and is effective at sending messages when done en masse.

I also boycott all the social media companies, Disney, Google as much as possible.

Sadly, there's not a ton of options in this space (computer electronics).

I've also e-mailed tim.cook@apple.com and expressed my opinions in a polite manner. Maybe someone read it. Who knows.

Stand up, fight back!

I like the thought, but AFAIK it doesn't really change the bottom line much, as long as you buy a used older product from a brand. Probably because the person selling it is buying a newer model, so you're still helping the company out.

I might be wrong, though. But this was the initial conclusion I arrived at when I was researching whether to buy an iPhone 17, iPhone 15 Pro (used) or Android phone. Only the last option would probably hurt Apple directly. And only a liiiiiittle.

That's nonsense. The choice is between you purchasing a new phone or you not purchasing a new phone. It's post hoc justification to assume that your dollars from buying a used unit will be used for something in particular. You made the decision you wanted and then built the logic to support it.

Ah! But, of course, I will also be slowing my purchasing cycles which means I'm buying less products over my lifetime.

I plan to ride my laptop out til it dies, not buy another Apple Watch, ride my phone out until I can no longer use it. Etc.

I'll do the same with work equipment instead of getting available upgrades.

And I still have my Apple One subscription because I got the whole family on it, but maybe one day I'll make the sad choice and cut that off too.

Yea, it's absolutely tough, and it's probably meaningless in the singular sense of it all, but if more and more folk think like I do, that will absolutely hit them in their bottom line. And, selfishly, I get to feel decent about where my money is going.

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