Those big corps sure lust after subscriptions. Damn those old paper magazines for giving them yet another unoriginal idea!
this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2026
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They can buy my left nut.
I'll buy it. Three fiddy?
$3.5 trillion. No low ball offers. I know what I've got.
No low ball
Ironic considering what I'm getting
Dumb coonsomer would get this dumb products and then wait for next new dumb products.
Well Apple and Samsung can kiss my hairy hoop.
Didn't Google used to have Pixel Pass where you get a new phone every 2 years? Then they killed it before the 2 year cycle was up?
Imaging companies promising you a new phone after 2 years and then canceling the program at 22 months and then said oops, here $50 store credit...
Fuck that.
...Motorola please pls pls sign deal with graphene OS
Rent your phone so you can rent an app that'll allow you to access your internet banking and pay for all the rents, including the rental of payment services for rental paying?
No, thanks, I'll cut through this whole Rube-Goldberg machinery of "living in society", straight into applying for a leasing for my next six-feet-under wooden house instead. I'd love the view, grass and chrysanthema at my roof, buzzards as my faithful company (whether it'll be part of the legalese leasing terms or not, Mother Nature doesn't care about that, and neither do I as I'd be long gone (or should I say, long bones) at that point).
How about you guys kiss the pimpliest part of my ass instead?
Honest question, what the fuck happens with phones that companies buy back? Is it for recycling? I can't imagine that makes them any money, so is the bet just that its worth it for then to subsidize the cost of the new phone to keep you buying new ones more often? That doesnt feel like it adequately explains the practice
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Hummm ... Go f yourself.
Groooooss. You'll own nothing and you'll like it.
I want an essential phone. Not too basic and not too “smart”.
It's time for some right-of-first-sale legislation that kills off the subscription-for-everything scam.
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It should be illegal for a lack of a subscription to prevent operation of something you've bought.
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Same goes for requiring connectivity.
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If the subscription service terminates, reverse-engineering to maintain continuing operations should be protected by law, and the manufacturer should be required to provide the specifications to the public.
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DRM to prevent access to subscribable features should be illegal.
This is basically how my company gives us our phones. And i think it’s now our less standard