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by nradov 2649 days ago
They could even bundle in a MacBook, iPad, and watch at a higher price tier so that the hard core Apple fans could pay a single monthly subscription fee and always have the latest model of every device.
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This sort of thing could not appeal to me any more, honestly. I've been trying to work out the most cost-efficient way of doing exactly this.

Of course, I am aware that _the_ most cost-efficient way is to accept that having the brand new and shiny every year is - for the most part - utterly pointless, but hey.

I wonder if a subscription fee for hardware would appeal to businesses.
If they have to buy a laptop anyway, spreading the cost over the life of the equipment turns a capital expense on the balance sheet into an operating expense on the P/L statement, and can have some pretty nice tax benefits (jurisdiction dependent of course).

Often plant and equipment is financed this way - photocopier for example are seldom purchased outright, and come bundled with service, support and consumables.

Many major PC manufacturers already offer leasing, which could effectively be thought of as a subscription: https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/learn/dell-business-lease
I wonder what the depreciation tax differences would be? For us we buy hardware in the 'on' years (our business runs in 2 year cycles)
I'd imagine so, given that's what hosting services like AWS are (along with the related software).
Doubt it - most businesses barely want to shell 5-10$/mo for a single user license of software.
Yeah, but they're already paying for hardware.
It does. We lease all our laptops.