You’ll Own Nothing and Like It: Apple
Is Working on Hardware Subscriptions for iPhones
Breitbart Tech,
by
Lucas Nolan
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
3/27/2022 8:42:34 AM
Tech giant Apple is working on turning its iPhone and other products into a subscription-based hardware service sharing some similarities with a car lease.
Bloomberg reports that tech giant Apple is developing a subscription service for its iPhone and other hardware products, which could turn iPhone ownership into a subscription service rather than direct hardware ownership. The service would be Apple’s biggest effort so far to enter the automatically recurring sales market.
The project is reportedly still in development, according to sources with knowledge of the matter, and has yet to be finalized. Apple shares climbed to a session high falling Bloomberg’s reporting of the feature late this week,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Safari Man 3/27/2022 8:45:15 AM (No. 1111324)
I keep mine for way longer than the intended life. That’s just how I roll.
15 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/27/2022 8:51:08 AM (No. 1111331)
It's a feature not a sales gouging technique.
5 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
bad-hair 3/27/2022 8:53:02 AM (No. 1111334)
HeHeHe
The subscription model. The best business model ever invented. Your customers pay you. Next month they pay you again. Next month ...
11 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
NancyD 3/27/2022 8:56:00 AM (No. 1111338)
I imagine this idea would flop and Android wouldn't do it and Apple would lose more than 1/2 of their customers.
21 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 3/27/2022 8:56:13 AM (No. 1111340)
Darn shame nobody else makes these kind of phones...
8 people like this.
The Auto Industry has been toying with this idea for years, to make it work though outdated cars need to be worthless, which isn’t the case.
7 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Yepper 3/27/2022 9:06:52 AM (No. 1111349)
Those people who are technically inclined and still buy Apple products deserve to be gouged.
11 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
TexaTucky 3/27/2022 9:30:08 AM (No. 1111367)
Isn't this the way Ma Bell used to do it? You didn't actually own the phone-on-the-wall . . . its lease or rental price was included in your monthly bill?
25 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
Rich323 3/27/2022 9:32:24 AM (No. 1111373)
You don’t pay they turn it off. Won’t do any good to keep an older model they’ll change the code on the apps they won’t work or connect to the servers. Got you by the balls for life, Here’s a chance for a conservative to open a new company run the old fashioned way.
14 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
red1066 3/27/2022 9:40:37 AM (No. 1111390)
I really don't care. The phone can sit in the closet. I lived the first 50+ years without being connected, I'll just do it again. I don't carry a wallet because I don't like carrying around a large object stuffed in my back pocket. I find it irritating. It's the same feeling with these big screen tv's called phones.
8 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
czechlist 3/27/2022 9:46:57 AM (No. 1111402)
#6 is correct. Want your heated seat in winter? You'll need a subscription to have it activated
7 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 3/27/2022 10:12:02 AM (No. 1111441)
And we'll be forced to subscribe to The Atlantic, online, of course.
1 person likes this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 3/27/2022 10:20:54 AM (No. 1111452)
#8 beat me to it. This is the old AT&T (?) model. They were broken up. Maybe the same thing will happen to Apple.
We had one of those old rotary phones in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Phone company owned it. They charged us for it when we discontinued its use but never turned it in. by then we could go to a store and buy a phone. We had forgotten if never belonged to us.
As for cars being leased and not sold, will the auto industry pay for repairs and maintenance. If I pay for its upkeep, I assume I own it.
6 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Ribicon 3/27/2022 10:55:13 AM (No. 1111483)
Or maybe they're not. A subscription would also include new hardware when it comes out, so people who always want to have the latest could do so at a lower price. I would doubt they'd go to subscription-only, the way a lot of software is sold these days (Adobe and Microsoft being leaders in that arena), because a lot of people dislike that model.
4 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 3/27/2022 11:14:41 AM (No. 1111499)
Not for me. Maybe leasing to a business is what Apple has in mind. I really don’t need all the apps I have on my iPhone now and if they try to make me lease, I’ll just go to one of those phones they advertise for “seniors”.
10 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 3/27/2022 12:11:49 PM (No. 1111545)
Going back to a flip phone! 99 dollars sounds about right!
4 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
mean Gene 3/27/2022 12:20:04 PM (No. 1111550)
I like landlines.
Saw one I really liked back in the 1990's and bought two of them.
Still using the 1st one!
Only $19.99 each.
5 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
mc squared 3/27/2022 12:26:41 PM (No. 1111556)
Not just Apple: '..under some of the subscription model scenarios suggested by automakers, certain features might disappear as soon as the monthly or yearly payment stops, in the same way your streaming or phone services stop when you cancel your subscription or fail to pay. '
You may find that your seat is too far back but the manufacturer shut it off and you can't fix it. It's all controlled from satellites and WiFi.
https://www.consumerreports.org/automotive-industry/why-you-might-need-to-subscribe-to-get-certain-features-on-your-next-car-a6575794430/
.
3 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
LadyHen 3/27/2022 12:32:47 PM (No. 1111562)
Can I just say I have always hated Apple products. I had to use them in college in the computer lab as we were an Apple campus but as soon as I could get back to PC, I did. I don't care about all the blah blah blah we computer geeks have been hearing since the 80's. I don't like monopolies and their phones have only made it worse. I have never had one of their products and never will.
A subscription society is a much more controllable society.
Rent your home, car, electronics, music, tv programming, internet content, shopping, food delivery.
7 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
JimBob 3/27/2022 12:49:20 PM (No. 1111577)
Never had an Apple product.
Never will.
4 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
504pc 3/27/2022 1:15:21 PM (No. 1111597)
All their doing is trying to put the money the carrier makes into their pocket. When Tmobil wants to make their earnings look good they’ve offered me phones not only with no down payment but they throw the tax into the monthly payment which is rare. When I go in to look at a new phone I tell them I’m overdrawn at the bank. Sometimes they tell me you need the tax upfront other times they say no problem.
0 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
hershey 3/27/2022 1:38:19 PM (No. 1111608)
Don't have one, never had one, never will have one..my little Galaxy Android is just fine..don't need all that extra hoop-de-do junk on their phone...(1G guy living in a 5G world)
3 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
DVC 3/27/2022 2:44:29 PM (No. 1111668)
I gave up on Apple, the company and it's outlook on things, in the 1990s. I will have nothing to do with Apple at all, by careful choice.
5 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
paral04 3/27/2022 2:55:01 PM (No. 1111679)
Year ago, that was the only way you could get an IBM mainframe. Then they were taken to court and were forced to let customers but the things. Where are our lawyers? They need to remind Apple's lawyers that this precedent has been established and forget about the leasing scam.
3 people like this.
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So you can pay them forever for something you'll never own?? And who owns the information ON the phone??