Lol, no
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Disgusting
Car companies started "leasing" cars at the very beginning of starting to charge way too much for their assembly-line products. Will the government eventually give apple some of that hot "bail out" money in the future?
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You'll own nothing!
I was like damn you almost got me the onion
The only reason I would do this would be to compile iOS apps, because I am not buying an iMac just for that. Except there's already services out there that offer the solution, plus I can also access other hardware too.
Or you could buy it using BestBuy financing. Or just buy the one you can afford.
Best Buy financing is pretty sick, 0% for 24 mos on high-dollar items. I bought a ~14-year-old house that still had the original washer and dryer in it and immediately replaced them with brand new, warrantied ones in a way that didn't force me to pay extra to some do-nothing rent-taker and that I didn't even feel the hit financially. Promotional shit like that feels scammy sometimes, but it definitely has its place if you use it judiciously.
Hold on, aren't MAC users leasing already? Once they stop updates to any one MAC, that's that for the computer 'you bought and paid for'. So, they are changing the terminology and calling it a 'business model'?
They're past the "make people comfortable with the strategy" phase. Now they're getting you to swallow the Flavor-ade