From each according to their ability.
No happiness in return.
I don’t know how they are making this work with different Carriers, lots of the carriers want to help support their customers, it seems this would get in the way
Oh yeah… I’m sure plenty of folks have plans for Apple and their woke execs in the Great Reset too.
You won’t even have a choice about renting an iPhone either. They will just deduct the monthly fee from your digital credit account. If you choose not to use the iPhone, that’s your choice, but you still get to pay for it.
And it will be mandatory to carry a tracking phone on you at all times.
With the monthly payments I’ve been making the past 2years, I thought I WAS renting it!
Most people don’t own there iPhones today. They take them out on two-year plans typically before they are paid off. Then they take out a two-year plan on the latest model. Thus, like leasing a car, they never actually own their iPhones.
Go somewhere without your phone sometime. It’s liberating. iPhones cost too much already and are not really necessary for day to day living.
Centurylink will be thrilled when everyone goes back to land lines.
The "Pi Phone" from Elon Musk looks a lot more interesting than any of the iPhones that have been peddled recently.
This and the coming digital currency, what could possibly go wrong for us peons?
And car companies are thinking about charging subscription fees for options that you have on your car I’m not paying higher rental fee for an iPhone
Say something they don’t like, they turn your phone off.
“You will own nothing, and you will be happy.”
You notice it is not “We will own nothing and we will be happy”.
It will be Neo-feudalism:
“ The concept of neo-feudalism may focus on economics, though it is not limited to it. Among the issues claimed to be associated with the idea of neo-feudalism in contemporary society, are: class stratification, globalization, neoconservative foreign policy, mass immigration and illegal immigration, open borders policies, multinational corporations, and “neo-corporatism”.
Wikipedia
Our Android phones work well on Tracfone!
Everyone used to rent phones from Ma Bell. It wasn’t the company that screwed us so much as it was that darn tax imposed on phone communications to pay off WW1 or whatever excuse it was the government used to justify it.
They were forced to change their business model because they realize pretty soon few will be able to afford buying their phones outright. Why people still pay for an expensive iPhone when you can get a cheap android phone that does everything you need I’ll never know.
Microsoft has been doing this for years, screwing over businesses and individuals with their products and having to constantly pay for something that you’ll never get to truly own. Now the music industry has followed along with movie and video games.
Not like you “own” your phone anyway. Everything involved in making it work is licensed rather than sold, plus you need a new one after three years. Sure, I “own” it, and can toss it in the lake and it’s my business, but not owning it must not be much different than leasing a car. Doesn’t seem to be a big deal in this case.
Buy your next phone.
Honestly when it comes to cellphone renting would be kind of nice. How many old phones do people have in various nooks? We’re all afraid to throw them away cause of the stuff on them, but we’re not gonna use them anymore. Plus of course all the services have their “windows” of when you can get new phones for cheaper. Gimme a rental plan, and professionally transfer stuff to the new phone, wipe the old phone and then it become THEIR problem.