And there it is, you will own nothing and the apple chuds will enjoy it.
You’ll own nothing and like it.
- capitalism.
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
There it is.
It’s nice when the bad guy wears a black hat and twiddles their mustache, isn’t it? Really helps to speed things up.
You stole the words right out of mouth. The beginning of not owning your own computer.
This is their business model. I would never.
Dell has been doing it forever and has a strong business plan. Our company uses them so they can easily swap out laptops
Nice!
I always hated that I only get to pay for my computer once.
wtf
People lease apartments, houses, cars, appliances, games, why not crapples?
“You’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy.” WEF
There are deals to be had out there. I got a 2015 Dell Optiplex for $20 at a thrift shop. I got a cheap 128GB SSD and 16GB of DDR3 RAM for it. Unless you’re a gamer, you probably don’t need a new computer. Buy used when possible. Especially DO NOT rent one.
Yeah, gaming has been the boy equivalent of “fast fashion” for a while now.
Heh.
No.
You will own nothing!
Lmao. So now I can use my rented services on my rented laptop! I can go get the laptop in my rented car, to go back home to my rented place… it really is going to be you’ll own nothing and like it.
Here’s a solution for you. Use your old MacBook, the one with 2GB of RAM. Use your old copy of Office 2008, the one that requires no subscription and offers no AI assistant. Stop paying for Spotify, find your old mp3 collection, convert all those CDs you never play anymore. You want television? Don’t pay subscriptions for that either, buy an HD antenna, get your local stations over the air. If it doesn’t have everything you want, suck it up or pirate it, your call.
My point is, you can choose a different path, but it takes a choice.
You know, dumb flip phones are coming back, people are realizing they don’t need all the crap they’re paying for, it doesn’t all make life better. It takes conviction to trade in your smart phone for a dumb one, but people are doing it.
TBF I self host and use Arch (btw) I was just making a supply joke, but your point stands.
That said, people need things, sometimes you have to buy new things, and if so, don’t feel bad, try to make good choices, but you also have to take care of yourself.
You forgot about using your rented Mac for playing rented games, music and movies.
Mac’s can play games???
Bungie made mostly Mac games until Microsoft bought them. Marathon (the original) was a Mac game.
Yeah, they always have.
You will own nothing but corporations will still hold you, the consumer, responsible when their decisions have catastrophic outcomes for everybody.
Such a stupid saying. Nobody likes it.
Average rental enjoyer…
It’s their only option when people can’t afford shit
End stage capitalism boys. Its down the tubes until collapse/revolution.
I mean, its decidedly not, but its certainly the option that means the least effort and most profit on their part.
By owning nothing we can afford to have everything we want.
Fuck this shit
If you give it back with scratches on it, will you be into negative equity? 😬 I assume it’ll come with all the bad parts of car leasing, too…
My assumption is the lease payments will more than cover the cost of the computer, and when you turn it back in at the end of the lease Apple is just going to scrap it.
I suppose that doesn’t preclude them charging you extra if you return it all scratched up just to extract even more money from you.
The lease contract includes 30,000 cpu-core-hours, any additional time will be billed at $0.10 per cpu-core-hour.
/s
Jfc, stop giving them ideas!
I see the /s there, but it feels as likely as not.
And yet somehow worse. Don’t have to spend hours finding important files on my car’s hard drive before returning it to the dealership
You’ll need your own storage to backup before erasing and turning it in, but they probably know that and will factor that in for a fee.
“Rent X months, get an SSD with your backup for free when you cancel your subscription.”
They’ll likely try to upsell you on iCloud services as well. Your entire life will be digitized and uploaded into the cloud, onto some corporate computer somewhere.
My issue with this is that you can often get a cheap laptop used, and major cities often have libraries that rent laptops to residents, if needed. And paying your library is cheaper than paying Apple, plus the money goes to the local library.📚
Good news!
/s
If they haven’t already they definitely want you to save everything on “the cloud”, before people realize “the cloud” just means “data center”.
Great! I can now enter a prompt into a data-center-hosted LLM, “do my job,” and the data center will conveniently also store the resulting fraudulent work product in the same location, while I relax at home on a permanent unpaid vacation! So convenient!
Imagine leasing a laptop for only X number of charging cycles allowed.
