"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."
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I think iPhone been like that for years even without subscriptions. I don’t think you can activate iPhones without connection to Apple servers. It sadly make sense that Apple would eventually try this.
From my understanding the use of the phone is a "licensure" agreement - which means you don't own the rights to use the phone, you have a license to use it. This distiction means they can effectively terminate your license at any time and you don't have legal recourse. Hooray.
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.
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.
Latest stage capitalism. Software as a service is bad enough, physical goods as a service..........
lol, prisoners of the apple ecosystem will say this is normal, makes sense for them, or is otherwise somehow good.
And the three years later the Android phones start doing exactly the same thing.
Fuck this shite, that why I rarely update it software to prevent breaking the phone
Can't wait to decide whose corporate debt slave I am going to become awesome cool 😎
