• DiabolicalBird@lemmy.ca
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    9 hours ago

    This is the start of corporations trying to completely phase out owning your own hardware.

    This needs to fail hard or it will spread to every other major vendor. But in this timeline every evil deed seems to succeed and be rewarded. Be sure to hoard your old hardware, you’ll likely need it later.

    • gian @lemmy.grys.it
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      7 hours ago

      This is the start of corporations trying to completely phase out owning your own hardware.

      No, this is just a company that is trying to rename the old leasing concept.

      This needs to fail hard or it will spread to every other major vendor. But in this timeline every evil deed seems to succeed and be rewarded. Be sure to hoard your old hardware, you’ll likely need it later.

      In the enterprise world this is already a thing, companies already lease many devices (pc, laptop, copy machines, cars, phones etc), it not seems to be that much different.

      In the private world, if you have the option to keep the laptop at the end the the rent period, you basically paid for the laptop in instalments, which again it nothing really new, it is already used for phones.

      In my opinion the only real big problem is if they stop selling the laptop and only allow you to rent them