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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah electronics lately instead of helping people squeezes money from us

Android smartphones are just elaborate ad viewing devices with extra stuff to not throw it out. Apple are subscription milking devices where you effectively pay monthly tribute to be less of a walking data stick. pick ur poison

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Crazy thing is... I'd pay for a service like the one mentioned in the post. As long as it was still a net savings of course. Even if I broke even it would still be taking the mental load of doing that off my wife and I.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It's called a Costco membership

/S

[–] brlemworld 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Name 1 Apple subscription that improves privacy as you are describing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

What I meant is that apps on the App Store are sub based usually. At least the good ones. It's even rare to have ad revenue, pay to remove ads model. Effectively you have to pay subs to use device to the full on top of hefty apple tax.

On the play store way more apps are free but shitty quality or riddled with ads from top to bottom. data harvest fest + google selling u as product. Truly dystopic OS.

Subscription company vs ad company. Pay a lot to not be enslaved by google and I mean a lot like 4000$ (MBP+iPhone+pods+iPad+tv) + 50+$ monthly