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Apple Drops Plans for iPhone Hardware Subscription Service
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When you are born, you are subscribed to life.
You really need to keep paying to keep your life going.
And at the end your subscription will run out, and you can't take anything with you.
All a bit pointless really......
You really need to keep paying to keep your life going.
And at the end your subscription will run out, and you can't take anything with you.
All a bit pointless really......
An important difference is that in the above, you (eventually) own the phone. Presumably that wouldn’t be the case with a subscription.
I think this was the idea.
But the actual better solution is for someone who wants to get a phone for less, to simply buy a less expensive phone.
That new SE coming out looks like it will be a good option.
There is no practical difference between this and the iPhone Upgrade Program, when the user elects to upgrade every year. Don't understand why this was ever 'researched' in the first place.
The differences I'd like to see in a new program are dropping Citizens One involvement, and allowing use with any carrier. I used to participate in iUP until I switched to an MVNO.
With the Apple Card they had this "software issue" where without authorisation they transferred money from customer to their own bankaccount.
A lot of ISPs offer a router/modem at no additional cost. We have Verizon FiOS and our 6E router is included at no additional cost (and we have a dirt cheap price on the plan in general to boot).
I'd wager that a majority of iPhone owners finance through their carrier and trade in for upgrades on a cyclical basis. They never own their devices in this process. This has been the norm long before our current encrapification world.
It’s the same idea as a rental. Not for me, but I could see the use cases for people who temporarily needs a work phone or such for a few months.
Well, at least here in the Netherlands that is not the case. You actually either buy the phone outright or pay a loan for 12/24 months. You always own the phone here.
I always buy the phone outright, since that is always cheaper and then sell my old phone.
I knew I wasn’t crazy in thinking this existed already.you mean ... this?
iPhone Upgrade Program
Get a new iPhone every year, and the protection of AppleCare+ with the iPhone Upgrade Program. Buy now or visit an Apple Store today.www.apple.com
Would have been cool from 2007-2017 or so when the updates were big enough to warrant a new phone every 2 years or so.
We'll own nothing when we die.
It's a forum 🤷♂️
The reporting was that this was meant to be a consumer-facing offering, not for businesses/enterprises. As a technology manager, do you fully understand it?
Would you prefer they call it a "hardware lease"? Six of one, half a dozen of another.
And given what Comcast and others charge monthly for modem rental - it doesn't take very long for you to get in the black doing this!
(It's what I do too)
You can bring your modem with Comast.
I have Spectrum. The modem is free with service, well free as in the service is the same price whether you use their modem or not.
In this case, Apple decided nobody should have it.
People have enough subscriptions (and enough of them as well). You don’t want to look at your iPhone and be reminded that you’re looking at another one.
