The commodity status, the cheap pricing and the quick doubling of capacity makes for a tiny used market.

Macheads liked to brag about resale value, but that was due to a tightly controlled monopoly and a comparatively, agonizingly slow advance in hardware. What you got from a 3 year old Mac compared to a new Mac made sense financially.

You could often buy a new PC with the same or better specs than what people were asking for used ones with no warranty.

There is a reason that service isn’t really stressed much with PCs, they aren’t a long term play any more. If they run for 90 days, they will last until you upgrade.

The truth is, it’s hard to even donate computers here in the US. Places are overflowing with them. You have to pay to dispose of them in many places. I remember in the 80′s banks would make business loans using PC’s for collateral. I also remember when TVs were kept for a decade, when cd players and vcrs were worth repairing.