Apple Upgrade launches in the United States
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Apple Upgrade — a new hardware leasing program — is now available on the Apple Store online, in the Apple Store app, and at Apple Store locations in the United States.

Phone manufacturers want consumers to upgrade more frequently. Now they are proposing leasing phones because people are not spending their bread money on gizmos.

  • just some guy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    72·
    23 天前

    Iirc this upgrade program has been around in some iteration for several years. It’s not even something Apple is pushy about. If anything it’s specifically catered to the people who are going to trade in for new devices at launch anyway. My BIL is often like this and has been on this upgrade plan for years for his phone. If a new model comes out he wants, he puts in for the upgrade, otherwise he keeps the one he already has.

  • piccolo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    21 天前

    I have never owned a brand new phone. Just buyem used for a fraction of the price. Chums leasing their phone for a year and replacing them. For what exactly? Manufacturers havent offered any innovation in a decade. If anything they have been stripping features. I suppose you have the foldables… but fragile bending screens are just a planned obsolescence wet dream.

  • Reannlegge@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    21 天前

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Upf_B9RLQ

    Why save the money on your own when you can pay more than what the phone is actually worth with monthly payments! Sure carriers have been doing this for years but with that you actually get the phone when the contract is up. Capitalism make the poor worse and make the rich richer, especially when they cannot innovate enough to make the peons want to upgrade.