Instead of buying your next expensive iPhone, why not just never own it at all?
  • LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    5 days

    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
      4 days

      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.

    • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5 days

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

  • njordomir@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 days

    On a practical note: we need to mock this to the point that anyone who actually does it will instantly be a social pariah. This needs to be so embarrassingly stupid that the companies who offer it literally blush, something non-human entities typically can’t do. Gamers Nexus had a good video about NZXT doing this and broke down the math for the numerically challenged.

    Any other ideas for making this fail in a country where the consumer protection agencies are often worse than nobody paying attention at all?

  • mikenurre@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5 days

    [2028] Apple announces that they will no longer sell phones to consumers, only rent them. “Our customers love the ease of monthly rental payments that never stop and we listened!” said one Apple exec.

  • meejle@piefed.worldEnglish
    5 days

    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…

    • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
      5 days

      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