Apple Plans to Defeat RAM Prices by Letting You Lease a Mac
gizmodo.com/apple-plans-to-defeat-ram-prices-by-letting-you-lease-a-mac-2000788552
Replying to @JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org
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?
Replying to @17jGuFCOn89iY@lemmy.world
When a company says it has a “solution” for the high price, they means they have a “solution” for the big number on the sticker. Not that they actually care about affordability.
Replying to @Jason2357@lemmy.ca
when the $ numbers start getting big and scary, just extend the length some more to make it look ‘cheaper’… like 8 year car loans and 50 year mortgages.
Replying to @adarza@lemmy.ca
Yeah, had a car dealer try to say “the price doesn’t even matter, only the monthly payment matters, right?”
The problem for those of us who know better: this reasoning works on most of the customers and it’s more profitable to do that than cater to more savvy customers.