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This is exactly the way the car market works, except you can't (yet) lease a new laptop for three years.

I don't know where you live but companies have been leasing computer equipment for decades. Usually for 3 to 5 years or monthly for special projects.

Over 20 years ago I joined a company as Director of IT. In the first 10 days I cancelled several thousands of dollar of monthly leases of equipment that siting unused from projects that were over but not returned. Nobody looked at the leases while the Directors position was being filled.

Random IT leasing article from google. https://www.costowl.com/rental/equipment-leasing-it-cost.htm...

I suspect he meant in the consumer market. You can effectively lease mobile devices. It’s IDD it’s not commonplace for laptops.

That's super interesting. I was thinking about consumer laptops, where in this analogy your thing would be more like car company fleet sales. I'm fascinated this business model is alive and well well into the cloud era!

Seems to me over the last couple decades most laptops have been designed to last only two years.

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