Instead of buying your next expensive iPhone, why not just never own it at all?
  • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
    3 months

    Honestly, the level of doublethink on display by some Apple fans is impressive normally but this is amazing. Apple “defeats” RAM prices by making you pay for something several times over while not actually getting to own it? Fucking bootlickers.

  • dunestorm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    I’d rather go back to 2007 and main my Intel Core 2 Duo than rent a PC. We’re going backwards not forwards guys…

  • Tinks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    They’ve been doing it for businesses for decades so this isn’t really surprising honestly

  • DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3 months

    I knew this was going to happen eventually but the fact that it’s happened so soon is insane to me.

  • njordomir@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    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?

    • rapchee@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      yes … but remember the horse armor? people do be gullible

  • chunes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    “defeat.” I think you mean “realize their evil ambitions.”

  • Art3mis@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3 months

    This was so insanely predictable. I wouldnt be surprised if all the tech giants move to do the same. “you will own nothing”

  • curiousaur@reddthat.comEnglish
    3 months

    This actually makes some sense, since I’m genuinely interested in 1.5TB of integrated ram and what you can do with it, but don’t really want to shell out the 30k it will cost.

    • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      30k?!? It would be more like 50. I was lucky enough to get three 512gb Mac Studios for work and they were over 10k each. And this was before RAM went through the roof.

  • THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    I am so happy I built a new computer at the end of 2024. It may realistically last me two decades at this rate. I got one decade out of the last build.

    • HugeNerd@lemmy.caEnglish
      3 months

      I maxed out my configuration at 64GB RAM and 2TB SSD around the same time.

    • tauisgod@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      A lot will. My last company leased their hardware. It cost more in the long run but for reasons I never understood it’s better having expenses paid out of opex versus capex.

      • jj4211@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 months

        Yeah, I was in a room with a customer that said point blank “even if it costs us more in opex within a year than buying it as capex, we would rather rent the stuff as opex”

        Some accounting bullshit makes them hate having anything that they must count as an “asset” that goes down in value over time. Better to burn the money as “expense” than to have to manage the value burning off over years as “depreciation”.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    3 months

    Aaaand there we go, as predicted for the lady decade. You won’t own anything and you’ll like it. You will lease pur hardware and we will know everything about you.

    Fuck all of this

  • Snapz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    Wow! How lucky are we?!! This also happens to coincide with Apple raising chocolate rations from 10 to 8!!!