Re:EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024
by colejohnson66 on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @07:50PM
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It does seem petty. “I just paid for a $1000 phone with a massive markup and you mean I have to pay an extra $12 to get a decent amount of storage?” It’s not like the 99¢ gets you a terabyte; you only get 50 GB. They could just swallow the cost, but they don’t.
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Re:EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024
by theshrike79 on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @01:11AM
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Continuous services are taxed and accounted differently from one-time costs.
They hook you in with the $1 option, you see how useful iCloud is and then you'll fork up even more. Then you notice that your whole family can share the subscription and soon you'll be paying $10 for the 2TB option and are an Apple One subscriber.
That's just good business nowadays. All companies _could_ just sell stuff with an one-time fee and provide a service forever, but it's not fiscally responsible in the long run.