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Apple Halts Effort to Build iPhone Hardware Subscription Service [Bloomberg] (archive.fo)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world

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[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

that's not too much different than multi-year financing and buy backs/trade ins. But also I guess outright calling it a "subscription" would be awful optics. No doubt someone even less scrupulous like carriers will be doing this soon enough.