Why Apple won’t sue the company that stole 100K iPhones eventually sold in China

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Apple has seemingly decided not to proceed with a lawsuit against a contractor known as GEEP it pays to scrap more than 250,000 iPhone units each year. These devices were taken in by Apple for trade or recycling and many were in working condition and could have been factory reset, refurbished, and sold in the used smartphone market. According to Bloomberg (via 9to5Mac ), Apple discovered that at least 99,975 of these iPhones were shipped by GEEP to China where they were sold on the used device market in that country. In 2020, a breach of contract suit against GEEP...