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Apple shipped five plane-loads of iPhones and other products in three days to beat US tariff deadline
(www.economictimes.com)
this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2025
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Apple has teased with making the iPhone-as-a-service, meaning you lease it instead of owning it. The tariffs might give it the pretext it needed to go ahead with the idea, because the alternative would be sacrificing some of its abundant profit margins.
That’s already a thing in Mexico (with a 3rd party reseller)
https://www.ishopmixup.com/iphoneforlife
Wow. Aren’t we Mexicans inventive?
It's also an option with some of the Canadian companies so I have to make sure the two year term is to-own whenever I get a new phone.
Most carriers seem to offer a cheaper rental contract now