I think that's US only, right? Same with the iPhone upgrade program, and I don't think exists in Canada.

With interest, unlike the phones.

That's not entirely true. It's no interest for 18 months. https://www.apple.com/shop/browse/financing

Depends on your credit score if you get no interest on laptops, unlike with phones (where they approve you or don’t, but details remain the same). Also, there’s no trade up program on the laptop financing, so to go back to OP’s point, there isn’t an equivalent offering for laptops to what exists for phones.

Yes. A lot of the diehards over at /r/apple let slip occasionally how they are always financing the latest and greatest. Which is absurd to me especially for the mac product lines where you are overpaying by thousands for an outdated machine [1].

And the estimate of 3 year lifecycle for wearables like the watch and airpods seems overly optimistic. My airpods are a year old and the battery dwindles in about an hour or two before needing charging, my watch is bricked after 7 months.

When the current debt bubble pops it'll be interesting if it effects Apple revenue as hard as it will the college debt / car debt markets.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIB389tqzCI

> watch is bricked after 7 months

Don't they have a 1-year warrantee?

I still have a series 0 Apple watch that works fine and is used everyday. How is your watch not working?

Same but I stopped wearing mine. 7 months life is too short if it was new. Should take it to Apple. All for complaining on the bad stuff, but this is a free throw.

The iPod came out a month after 9/11. The iPhone took off during the height of the recession.