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Apple’s stance against planned obsolescence is bearing fruit. B-Stock, which claims the title of world’s largest business-to-business marketplace for trade-in phones, announced on Tuesday that the iPhone X had overtaken the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus as the most sold used model. The switchover comes with the iPhone X retaining a high value, high incentives for consumers to trade up to an iPhone XS, and Apple pledging to support older devices for longer with its iOS 12 software update.
Each year, B-Stock facilitates the movement of billions of dollars worth of returned and overstock inventory via the world’s largest B2B recommerce marketplace. This means, of course, that we sit in the middle of a two-sided network madue up of…