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I wouldn't be surprised if Apple excludes a random feature just because people won't need to buy again if they make the device people actually want.

You see it in the iPhones and the variant SKUs, and Canon and Nikon also had been doing this when there wasn't competition eating their lunch.

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There are just going to be more and more pushes to turn your laptop into a subscription service. Pay apple $100/mo and always have the latest hardware sent to you on release, always have the latest version of the OS, always have a store you can drop off a broken laptop and walk back home with a perfectly working one that day no questions asked, etc.

ive been waiting for this since they first announced the iphone upgrade program, sign me up.

I think it will be this for electronics, and hopefully telsa will be able to provide this for cars. If I cant own it fully, atleast make the subscription service completely hassle free and worth it.

In fact this is an answer to the OP about they will hide features. Business is business and they have to survive in some form. One-off purchase is well one-off. If there is a business on-going concerns, they can sort of give out the shaver and recover from the blade sale etc. And as software need update any case whilst hardware we have been good enough for quite a while, it is better a software subscription model.

Of course the problem is whether they can cut the line ...

That sounds like the absolute worst thing I can imagine ever happening to computing.

Enterprise IT works that way. You basically lease with option to buy servers/computers in bulk and refresh every 3-5 years.

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