“Apple experienced a record sales weekend for the launch of the iPhone 5s and 5c, so this news probably isn’t surprising,” Steven Sande reports for TUAW.
“Consumer electronics recycler Gazelle saw a lot of action during the same time, with almost four times as many trade-ins on launch day compared to that same time frame during the iPhone 5 launch last year,” Sande reports. “It might be a number of Samsung smartphone owners jumping ship to the new iPhones, as Gazelle reported a 210 percent jump in trade-ins of Samsung phones during the launch weekend.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Gee, that’s too bad. Paint ’em gold boys, paint ’em gold.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
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