Apple’s Agreement with Cupertino Is Taxpayer-Fleecing Collusion

Re:Apple’s Agreement with Cupertino Is Taxpayer-Fleecing Col... by no_wizard on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @01:54PM (#35617398)

When I learned about the Jobs' car deal, I asked someone I knew in car sales about it. They said that most likely its a mundane 6 month lease that they were likely just repeatedly auto-renewing against the same vehicle until he chose to drive a different one, if at all.

This is the most probable scenario

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Re:Apple’s Agreement with Cupertino Is Taxpayer-Fleecing Col... by samstave on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @03:16PM (#35618650)

Cool, so is that deal available to all?

Imagine as a non-billionaire/famous asking for such terms at purchase.

Ffs I was paying cash for a new car and they said they wanted to run my credit.. I said FU and had to threaten to leave if they wanted the sale, why run credit on a cash purchase?

But I don't expect that most dealers will give you a jobs-like deal? Or is this normal?

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Re:Apple’s Agreement with Cupertino Is Taxpayer-Fleecing Col... by QuizzicalCarbon on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @06:05PM (#35621008)

It’s a short-term car lease. Nothing new.

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Re:Apple’s Agreement with Cupertino Is Taxpayer-Fleecing Col... by samstave on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @12:05PM (#35629879)

Thanks, I was led to believe all these years that he had some sort of weird loophole he was exploiting... and I always found that weird, like, he had enough money to buy a new car every day if he wanted, so I never understood the impetus.

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