Technology

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

You will own nothing

The beginning of HaaS (Hardware as a service)

[it is very bad]

You’re still paying for the more expensive ram. It’s just baked into a higher monthly rental payment. Why pay more for ram one time when you could pay more for ram every month for the rest of your life?

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.

F U C K

T H A T

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?

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...

Looks absurd, but I'm sure a lot of people will pay for it and next year we will have news about apple getting record profits

I'm too tired of all this

Enshittification

Leasing is not renting

For tech stuff basically a financial entity buys the goods for you at full MSRP (they calculate a almost 100% depreciation over the term), then you pay that full price + interest over 48/60 installments, and when you're done, they take the goods back and sell it back via some liquidator.

And because the financial entity bought the stuff for you especially to lease it, you're contractually obligated to pay until the end of the contract, can't just get it for a month and then be done with it

You paid $1200 to use something worth $900 for four years and then it's not yours

Unless you're a business and the accountant says that's better for taxes, leasing something doesn't make sense

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.

It ain’t perfect but it’s pretty good and gets better all the time:

https://asahilinux.org/fedora/

Get an “old” m1 and rock out. Fuck Apple.

And there it is, you will own nothing and the apple chuds will enjoy it.

Wasn't this the goal from the start? With the inflated RAM prices, you not owning computing. Well, they'll surely find some idiots.

"defeat." I think you mean "realize their evil ambitions."

That's...worse

Just like investment real estate squatters buying up houses, driving up real estate costs, and then forcing you to rent.

Next, Apple keeps jacking up lease prices.

hahaha, no

Fuuuuck that.

You'll own nothing and like it.

• capitalism.

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

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

Watch programmers and artists pay for lease.

What dystopian hell is this?!

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

Thanks, but no.

Nice!

I always hated that I only get to pay for my computer once.

HAH, how 'bout no!

Any idea when the Chinese RAMs are going to flood enough of the market to lower the price?

Kudos to them, if i cannot install my own software anymore and don't own the hardware, it could be leased as well. /s

This is their business model. I would never.

Sounds on par with the rest of the tech oligarchy. Imagine missing a payment. You're in a business meeting and a tiny RC tow truck wheels in to haul it away.

Leasing / renting will defeat RAM prices....somehow.

I know. Typical click bait headline.

Apple is in kind of a precarious position, though, aren't they? They're pretty much a hardware-first, consumer facing company.

If the crash manifests, they'll be in a good position, though.

Shit like this just makes me wanna delete all the Apple compatibility stuff from my open source projects. It's not like they're fully realized (I cannot afford a Mac, not even a used one), but it just demotivates me from supporting their OSes and hardware.