Kudos to them, if i cannot install my own software anymore and don't own the hardware, it could be leased as well. /s
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If you give it back with scratches on it, will you be into negative equity? 😬 I assume it'll come with all the bad parts of car leasing, too...
And yet somehow worse. Don't have to spend hours finding important files on my car's hard drive before returning it to the dealership
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And there it is, you will own nothing and the apple chuds will enjoy it.
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That's...worse
Fuuuuck that.
Sounds on par with the rest of the tech oligarchy. Imagine missing a payment. You're in a business meeting and a tiny RC tow truck wheels in to haul it away.
Nah they just lock the screen with a message about making a payment to embarrass you.
MBAs solve yet another case, which other problem will they create and solve, but not really, next time?
Shit like this just makes me wanna delete all the Apple compatibility stuff from my open source projects. It's not like they're fully realized (I cannot afford a Mac, not even a used one), but it just demotivates me from supporting their OSes and hardware.
You should delete apple anyway. Why does ANYONE use that garbage?
Switching to Apple with advanced data protection and HomeKit has been great for my big family. Way fewer tech support calls for me.
It was the most feasible option in the end. If it were just me, and I wasn’t raising kids and supporting aging parents, and working 50 hour work weeks, then I’d do graphene and home assistant. I’m just at a point that I want as much privacy as I can get for the least amount of maintenance.
That’s why I use the garbage. I was talked into it by my lunch group at work, who are sysadmin types, who switched for similar reasons.
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People who think they (still) make nice hardware. If anything, they made hardware worse by setting trends other manufacturers now also follow.
No one who has ever had to crack one open and work on it think they make nice hardware. Its consumer unfriendly trash.
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You will own nothing and fucking like it!
Mah computer subscription is a monthly payment I can't miss.
There are deals to be had out there. I got a 2015 Dell Optiplex for $20 at a thrift shop. I got a cheap 128GB SSD and 16GB of DDR3 RAM for it. Unless you're a gamer, you probably don't need a new computer. Buy used when possible. Especially DO NOT rent one.
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I'll absolutely never touch that shit, but I am kinda curious what the pricing will look like.
How long does it take for buying to be cheaper than renting. How long before you are expected to get a new one - this is actually quite a big one, could it encourage more buying new laptops and so also improve the second hand market? Better and cheaper second hand laptops could be sweet.
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Fuck this shit
How is that a defeating ram prices for fucks sake. Only defeat is happening on user side. Is there any media that can’t publish pro corpo articles anymore?
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I feel like it's been like this for a long time now.
Nice!
I always hated that I only get to pay for my computer once.
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Companies with high-end products have the biggest profit margin cushions to deal with. I had little sympathy for Apple raising prices already, but this is absurd.
they will still require you to either pay for the device in full or else lose the option to sell it to somebody else after you’re done
...Minus the payments already provided, right?
The Apple Upgrade service will work like a subscription and users can pay off the device early during their term, upgrade early to a new model or keep it at the end of the leasing period. In certain cases, those transactions will incur an additional fee .
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Heh.
No.
Leasing / renting will defeat RAM prices....somehow.
I know. Typical click bait headline.
Apple is in kind of a precarious position, though, aren't they? They're pretty much a hardware-first, consumer facing company.
If the crash manifests, they'll be in a good position, though.
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