It just occurred to me that I have posted in this blog for almost 18 years. For nostalgia reasons, I thought I should check the very first entry. Here it is:
On June 29, 2007, Apple released its first iPhone. The phone I described in the first post of this blog was a flip phone by Motorola. I didn’t pick up the iPhone until some years later. I went through the Droid phone first which came out in November 2009. It had a hard keyboard under the screen.
I just checked, and as of April 2025, it’s estimated that approximately 400,000 smartphones are retired daily in the United States. This figure is derived from annual estimates suggesting that around 151 million smartphones are discarded each year, equating to roughly 400,000 per day. So the numbers really haven’t changed much.
Smartphones are larger, but more flat. So I’d say they pretty much still would fill up a school bus … every day.