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3 months agoWith smartphones current prices and componants becoming more expensive they are realizing not a lot of people will buy a smartphone costing more than 1500 dollars. Especially when hardware is now good enough and people are starting to try to keep their phone as long as possible.
Making you rent your phone allow to hide how much it’s going to cost you and ensure them a steady cash income.
Agree I read it as: let’s degrade subscribed users experience to protect us from piracy… And then: we should really do more, we don’t know why but more and more people are pirating… face palm… As a paying customer if it gets bad enough I would probably revert to the old ways…
Make service good and cheap enough are the only real solutions…