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0 pointsbaroffoos6y ago0 comments

A decade of corporate brainwashing has convinced people that only criminals want to control the device they own.

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cbluth6y ago· 4 in thread

Most people don't own, they use payment plans

146y ago

And if a person loses the phone one month into their payment plan they still have to pay for the entire price of the phone. So you take ownership the moment you make an agreement with the company to make payments.

baroffoosOP6y ago

Payment plans seem like absolute insanity to me. Everyone I know on one is paying $100+ AUD per month perpetually since as soon as they have paid it off they get a new phone.

I have found that it is insanely cheap to just buy last years phone second hand. I picked up a pixel 2 recently for $300 AUD when it was about $1000 the year before.

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unicornfinder6y ago

Indeed. To be honest it seems like madness to me that phone contracts don't include some kind of insurance as standard.

I've always bought my phones outright but my girlfriend recently had her phone stolen in London about a month after getting it and you can imagine how painful that was for her.

saagarjha6y ago

From a technical perspective, both users have (or lack) equal access to their hardware. So the actual method of ownership isn't really relevant.

rimliu6y ago

Jailbreak is a good way to let criminals to control your phone.

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