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The market for refurbished phones is taking off. Apple should be scared. "Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything," Steve Jobs said when he unveiled the ...

That’s faster growth than the new phone market, which grew only 3%. Apple drove the majority of growth in the market. In several regions, the supply of refurbished phones outpaced sales.

Forrester Research?s largest annual survey of Americans? technology adoption finds that 73 percent of the 37,000 respondents claim the mobile phone is the electronic device they use the most.