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.
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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.
Mine’s coming up on 8 years now. It was new once!
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.