There’s not a lot of details on the program right now

"Apple is reportedly working on selling iPhones and iPads themselves as part of a hardware subscription service, according to a new report from Bloomberg, whose author Mark Gurman writes the service could arrive next year.

The move would fit into Apple’s ongoing push towards subscription services as a whole. Over the past several years, Apple has increasingly been emphasizing recurring subscriptions like Apple Music, Apple TV Plus, Apple News Plus, Apple Fitness Plus, and Apple Arcade as key new revenue streams for the company. Many of those services have already been bundled together into the company’s Apple One bundles, too."

    • Cummunism [they/them, he/him]
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      3 years ago

      except you can buy a phone on ebay and bring it to a service. it sounds like with newer(or even current) models they wont even allow that to be possible without paying them to use the phone. plus when you pay $35 a month eventually the payments stop, unless you keep upgrading.

    • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      That is $420 a year, I could buy one of half a dozen different android models below that price maybe even half of that price once and use it for at least 2-3 years.