• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      12 days ago

      Honestly any moderately expensive item can be purchased through installments. Go to any electronics store and they’ll have offers like that, and they use different services to provide that financing.

      It’s a non-issue, carriers don’t need to be a party to that at all. I can literally go to BestBuy or Apple and get 0% financing on a new phone and take it to any carrier I want.

      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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        12 days ago

        You know what you’re talking about. It’s nice to see that.

        But if carriers didn’t have phones for sale everyone would be mad about it. They might have even been mad in the beginning, so the carriers started selling phones too.