ddawson100

That's interesting. It does raise a few questions.

* Can you just decline the monthly "subscription" at the Apple Store point of sale and then just pay that one-time online within 60 days?
* Are they reacting belatedly to many people waiting longer between replacements? Having a 3 year warranty plan, in some ways, sets an (incorrect) expectation that your phone has reached the end of its life and needs to be replaced. Many IT departments prefer to have computers under warranty so do think of their computers this way. A perpetual warranty gives people some confidence that their phone is safe or, at least, removes warranty as an arbitrary lifespan.
* Is the intention to at least draw some revenue from older phones?
* Is there a difference in accounting when seeing revenue as recurring rather than up-front?

I remember when the next big thing was a revolutionary product that combined three distinct functionalities into one device: a widescreen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone, and a breakthrough internet communications device. Are you getting it? The new Homepod and breakthrough iPad are not separate devices...

The blusterer-in-chief's newest Treasury nomination means there will be an adult in the room during tariff talks. Thank goodness. I know that his supporters think that China is the one paying and are gonna be shocked when the prices don't come down.

9secondkox2 said:

Just add the touchscreen and be done with it. Add a ui toggle in settings for touch controls for those who can’t seem to manage the already touch friendly ui and boom. Done. 

It’s time. 

It's time for what? Gorilla arm? : )  Seriously, I get that there are literally dozens of you who want to swipe your finger across a pristine display and muck it up just to quickly select something that requires the precision of a mouse. I get that it won't add much marginal cost and having the easy option to disable it would make both camps happy. I'm also happy that Apple curates product lines, pruning features to a necessary list of features rather than just make every option available. You can tell which camp I'm in but I guess we're all in agreement that Apple always has tough decisions to try to make both of us happy!

I agree that a subscription mouse is absolutely absurd but their CEO hasn't said anything about subscribing to a mouse. She mentioned the concept of a a quality "forever mouse" and mentioned that it's possible that people would want to pay for software updates to go with their hardware. It's maybe cynical to hear (read about) these two topics in an interview and conflate them. Logitech has never required you to pay for their software and if they had something good enough I imagine they could incrementally increase their revenue.

Their newer Logi Options+ is making it easier to assign multi-step macros to their mice & keyboards. Some of these macros duplicate other things I'm doing with paid software. If Logitech could compete with those other ones and do it better then I'd consider buying from them, too. But that's not a subscription mouse.