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The expensive nature of my next iPhone is moar money than I currently has.
Tue Sep 19 2023 07:32:56 EDT from Nurb432Sort of sad when people use terms like 'loan' in relation to a phone... how have we come to this point?
i still buy Chinese stuff direct, cut the middle man that slaps a pretty label and $ added on. I spend ~150, which end up being mid-hi range. I go with xiaomi normally as they are the big consumer electronic manufacturer over there, decent quality and they do *everything*...even electric toothbrushes.. AND no carrier crap AND no NSA tap... ( ya, CCP tap is included for no extra charge, but they dont care about me, i am not even a blip on their radar.. )
Even xiaomi has $2k+ flagship phones that will do night vision, go get your coffee and wipe your butt for you.. but if a 150 dollar phone does all i need, and lasts me until the next required platform update ( 4g to 5g mandate ), why?
Of course if i was really paranoid, id get a pinephone and run Linux..
Right, that is my point. Phones should not be so costly that people have to take out loans. ( really many people do, its just bundled into their contract and they never read the bill close enough to notice. )
Tue Sep 19 2023 11:46:09 EDT from LadySerenaKittyThe expensive nature of my next iPhone is moar money than I currently has.
you could fire up a quick VM with Macos and see what it does, before
you order the hardware.
I could. But I think I'll just wait. When the IT department is ready to begin the roll out, I am on the list, and they will ship me a machine. I only travel with my work machine a couple of times a year.
Any way you slice it, moving from Windoze to Mac is a nice upgrade. Not as nice as moving to a fully open source desktop, but simply being on a "mostly unix" will be nice.
My iPhone Loan is through Apple and backed by Citizen One. My first phone NOT financed through AT&T, because AT&T financing can go fuck a kite for all I care.
Tue Sep 19 2023 11:52:44 EDT from Nurb432Right, that is my point. Phones should not be so costly that people have to take out loans. ( really many people do, its just bundled into their contract and they never read the bill close enough to notice. )
Tue Sep 19 2023 11:46:09 EDT from LadySerenaKittyThe expensive nature of my next iPhone is moar money than I currently has.
There i fixed it for you :)
Sadly tho i agree with this version . Even tho i was a bell-baby. But after the breakup, it all went south. Things changed. In a lot of ways, in a lot of areas.
Tue Sep 19 2023 13:40:53 EDT from LadySerenaKittybecause AT&T can go fuck a kite for all I care.
It bears reminding that the company currently called "AT&T" is not AT&T.
It's actualy SBC, the company that everyone hated so much that they renamed themselves to "AT&T" after they acquired the real AT&T. There used to be a few people here who worked for Prodigy, which SBC also acquired, and they often attested how completely unlikeable SBC was. To everyone.
Let the hate flow. It isn't Ma Bell.