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basically pay for the whole pc the first year, but you don't own it. yup. several sites have run articles on it.
So it's like every other subscription rental service or Rent-to-own business. Those services have always been a scam. Nowhere near a new idea, and definitely not the first company to do it with electronics.
Don't see how this is any different than the hundreds of other companies that do this all over the place, other than it being a manufacturer directly instead of a middle man.
No, this is misrepresenting older hardware as state of the art, switching out hardware component of the system if you select the rental option, then asking a predatory rental fee, and littering the contract with mines that give the company cause to charge you extra or if they make mistakes reducing a 2 year legal period to adress the problem to a mere 60 days. And then using an army of influencers to lie and misrepresent this product in order to drive sales.