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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
Is this anything but anecdotal? Have you ever tried to resell Galaxy s5 or Galaxy Note to compare it to?
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Yeah pretty much anecdotal. I did sell a Lumia Phone and a Google Nexus tablet, and took a bit of a bath on both.
But there is a benefit. With an Android device, you have a ton of competing devices. If someone is tied to iOS, and plan to stay there, the market is incredibly narrow. There is pretty much one brand to choose from. It is pretty much going to boil down to storage size, version and condition of the device. As long as you have a strong combo of the three, you will always have a buyer.
Apples monopoly on the iSheep, helps if you have the right device. I find the sweet spot with the phones and iPads is always the middle storage version. As far as MacBooks go, it is mind boggling what someone will pay for a used one. I have sold MacBooks for 2/3 of what I have paid for them, 2 years after I bought them. PC laptops, I used to give away after a couple years. Again, I always spec my MacBooks out, to what the base one will likely be in 2 years. And it usually only costs a couple hundred bucks to do it up front. I think that is one of the big benefits to apple usually staying a bit behind on the performance specs on their new stuff. Your used stuff, looks great in a couple years as long as you have hot-rodded it a bit.