Instead of buying your next expensive iPhone, why not just never own it at all?
  • daggermoon@piefed.worldEnglish
    2 hours

    There are deals to be had out there. I got a 2015 Dell Optiplex for $20 at a thrift shop. I got a cheap 128GB SSD and 16GB of DDR3 RAM for it. Unless you’re a gamer, you probably don’t need a new computer. Buy used when possible. Especially DO NOT rent one.

  • dasrael@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2 hours

    “You’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy.” WEF

  • turtlesareneat@piefed.caEnglish
    40 minutes

    Uhh people are financing their weekly groceries now, dumb as this is I am not exactly stressing it, being able to lease cars didn’t take away cars from the rest of us.

  • LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    5 hours

    Lmao. So now I can use my rented services on my rented laptop! I can go get the laptop in my rented car, to go back home to my rented place… it really is going to be you’ll own nothing and like it.

    • Cocodapuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21 minutes

      Here’s a solution for you. Use your old MacBook, the one with 2GB of RAM. Use your old copy of Office 2008, the one that requires no subscription and offers no AI assistant. Stop paying for Spotify, find your old mp3 collection, convert all those CDs you never play anymore. You want television? Don’t pay subscriptions for that either, buy an HD antenna, get your local stations over the air. If it doesn’t have everything you want, suck it up or pirate it, your call.

      My point is, you can choose a different path, but it takes a choice.

      You know, dumb flip phones are coming back, people are realizing they don’t need all the crap they’re paying for, it doesn’t all make life better. It takes conviction to trade in your smart phone for a dumb one, but people are doing it.

    • pipi1234@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 hours

      You forgot about using your rented Mac for playing rented games, music and movies.

    • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5 hours

      You will own nothing but corporations will still hold you, the consumer, responsible when their decisions have catastrophic outcomes for everybody.

      • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4 hours

        I mean, its decidedly not, but its certainly the option that means the least effort and most profit on their part.

  • meejle@piefed.worldEnglish
    5 hours

    If you give it back with scratches on it, will you be into negative equity? 😬 I assume it’ll come with all the bad parts of car leasing, too…

    • gex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 hours

      The lease contract includes 30,000 cpu-core-hours, any additional time will be billed at $0.10 per cpu-core-hour.

      /s

    • Zomg@piefed.worldEnglish
      2 hours

      Imagine leasing a laptop for only X number of charging cycles allowed.

    • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
      5 hours

      And yet somehow worse. Don’t have to spend hours finding important files on my car’s hard drive before returning it to the dealership

      • EvergreenGuru@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5 hours

        You’ll need your own storage to backup before erasing and turning it in, but they probably know that and will factor that in for a fee.

        “Rent X months, get an SSD with your backup for free when you cancel your subscription.”

        They’ll likely try to upsell you on iCloud services as well. Your entire life will be digitized and uploaded into the cloud, onto some corporate computer somewhere.

        My issue with this is that you can often get a cheap laptop used, and major cities often have libraries that rent laptops to residents, if needed. And paying your library is cheaper than paying Apple, plus the money goes to the local library.📚

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5 hours

        Good news!

        /s

        If they haven’t already they definitely want you to save everything on “the cloud”, before people realize “the cloud” just means “data center”.

    • rowrowrowyourboat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5 hours

      You just know that apple idiots will line up to get this.

      Soon, you’ll be having people leasing laptops and trading them in every year for the new model, perpetually paying a monthly fee to have the best and newest laptop from apple.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5 hours

        It’s wild people don’t see the parrel to how 99% of Americans “buy” new phones…

        That’s 100% what Apple is going for, laptops the same as iphones.

        • dudeface@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4 hours

          I have owned all my MacBooks for 5 years+, pretty sure it’s the windows users who buy new computers ever year because they buy garbage and Microsoft are encouraged to slow down computers over time

          I use a 5 year old Mac mini at work and it’s faster than the thread ripper pro they originally gave me for what I do

          Apple hate of this degree just smells like ignorance in this day and age

          • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3 hours

            I have owned all my MacBooks for 5 years+,

            So has everyone else…

            This program is new…

            Apple hate o

            I said it’s the same as all phones, if you’re confused why I’m talking apple specifically, try reading the headline again, maybe ask Siri to explain the connection

      • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
        5 hours

        I’d be more surprised if people weren’t already doing this. They do with iPhones when they lease and upgrade with their carrier.

      • mrnngglry@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4 hours

        I don’t think people care as much about the latest and greatest laptop as they do smartphones. That mindset about phones is also just as true with Android fanboys as it is Apple fanboys. Apple haters love to criticize when Apple does something like this but when the rest of the industry follows suit, they show us how much non-Apple users eat that shit up too.

  • rozodru@piefed.worldEnglish
    3 hours

    knew this was coming. it’s Apple’s MO since…like…ever since the company started. Let someone else do it first and then try to do it better. HP is already doing this, Apple is going to “improve it”.

  • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
    5 hours

    Companies with high-end products have the biggest profit margin cushions to deal with. I had little sympathy for Apple raising prices already, but this is absurd.

    they will still require you to either pay for the device in full or else lose the option to sell it to somebody else after you’re done

    …Minus the payments already provided, right?

    • osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org
      4 hours

      This sounds exactly like what the major cell providers do with phones, or at least what AT&T does. Monthly interest-free payment to pay for the phone in 24 or 36 months, ‘upgrade’ available at half or an arbitrary percentage of the device having been paid off. It’s ‘your’ device, but to sell it you have to pay off the balance remaining on the note. If you upgrade early, and the device is still in good condition, they zero out the note at that point, but it still counts as buying a new device, so you incur tax + an arbitrary ‘activation’ fee just like you bought a new device with cash.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
      5 hours

      …Minus the payments already provided, right?

      It’s very vague. If you could use this as a rent-to-own it’s perhaps not so bad, but if it’s just rent-to-still-not-be-able-to-own it sucks.