Mah computer subscription is a monthly payment I can’t miss.
Enshittification
You’re still paying for the more expensive ram. It’s just baked into a higher monthly rental payment. Why pay more for ram one time when you could pay more for ram every month for the rest of your life?
When a company says it has a “solution” for the high price, they means they have a “solution” for the big number on the sticker. Not that they actually care about affordability.
Car companies started “leasing” cars at the very beginning of starting to charge way too much for their assembly-line products. Will the government eventually give apple some of that hot “bail out” money in the future?
What dystopian hell is this?!
Sounds on par with the rest of the tech oligarchy. Imagine missing a payment. You’re in a business meeting and a tiny RC tow truck wheels in to haul it away.
Nah they just lock the screen with a message about making a payment to embarrass you.
Shit like this just makes me wanna delete all the Apple compatibility stuff from my open source projects. It’s not like they’re fully realized (I cannot afford a Mac, not even a used one), but it just demotivates me from supporting their OSes and hardware.
You should delete apple anyway. Why does ANYONE use that garbage?
Switching to Apple with advanced data protection and HomeKit has been great for my big family. Way fewer tech support calls for me.
It was the most feasible option in the end. If it were just me, and I wasn’t raising kids and supporting aging parents, and working 50 hour work weeks, then I’d do graphene and home assistant. I’m just at a point that I want as much privacy as I can get for the least amount of maintenance.
That’s why I use the garbage. I was talked into it by my lunch group at work, who are sysadmin types, who switched for similar reasons.
People who think they (still) make nice hardware. If anything, they made hardware worse by setting trends other manufacturers now also follow.
No one who has ever had to crack one open and work on it think they make nice hardware. Its consumer unfriendly trash.
Just like investment real estate squatters buying up houses, driving up real estate costs, and then forcing you to rent.
Next, Apple keeps jacking up lease prices.
Wasn’t this the goal from the start? With the inflated RAM prices, you not owning computing. Well, they’ll surely find some idiots.
I’ll absolutely never touch that shit, but I am kinda curious what the pricing will look like.
How long does it take for buying to be cheaper than renting. How long before you are expected to get a new one - this is actually quite a big one, could it encourage more buying new laptops and so also improve the second hand market? Better and cheaper second hand laptops could be sweet.
Around here, people typically lease their phones. The numbers are intentionally obtuse and confusing because the lease is 2 years and then you can “buy it out” for a (still rather large) sum or roll it into a new model perpetually. You also get a discount from your service plan for leasing, putting the math outside your average adults ability.
How is that a defeating ram prices for fucks sake. Only defeat is happening on user side. Is there any media that can’t publish pro corpo articles anymore?
Has media ever been capable of criticising Apple? They have always been the tech media darling from what I can recall.
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Leasing is not renting
For tech stuff basically a financial entity buys the goods for you at full MSRP (they calculate a almost 100% depreciation over the term), then you pay that full price + interest over 48/60 installments, and when you’re done, they take the goods back and sell it back via some liquidator.
And because the financial entity bought the stuff for you especially to lease it, you’re contractually obligated to pay until the end of the contract, can’t just get it for a month and then be done with it
You paid $1200 to use something worth $900 for four years and then it’s not yours
Unless you’re a business and the accountant says that’s better for taxes, leasing something doesn’t make sense
I hope you’re not saying this in general terms, because leasing absolutely has its benefits even to individuals, especially for cars.
for cars it makes sense only if you really need to have a new vehicle every 3 years and you really need to have an all inclusive insurance that covers everything
otherwise you save thousands by taking a loan, get limited liability insurance, then sell it after 5-6 years
although the absolute savings (for a newish vehicle and not a shitbox) is to get a used one ex-leasing (max 3 years old, low mileage, all maintenance made correctly because the leasing company paid for it) then sell it after 3-4 years (or keep it until it becames a shitbox)
Fuuuuck that.
