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if the leasing model spreads more, and recycling tech as mentioned becomes more sophisticated, competition will drive the fees down.
Unless intellectual property laws are used to restrict supply by only allowing one vendor.
Hmm fair enough herz but I was pointing to existing companies not theoretical ones that could come in the future.
Although if you have any examples of this working in practice I would appreciate them
The closest ones I know of are in the mobile market but do not involving leasing products but owning them at a fair price one example is in Republic Wireless and there are a couple money saving strategies MMM mentions.
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2014/05/13/moto-x-vs-moto-g/Or I guess mintspare and similar ideas
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Notme has a good point about vendor selections with Apple and IBM making an unholy alliance to kill Blackberry in a sense the restrict supply side of mobile phones in the business market.
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/186372-apple-and-ibm-team-up-to-conquer-the-enterprise-market-and-crush-microsoft-blackberry-and-androidEvery now and then, the universe likes to throw a curve ball, just to see if you’re actually paying attention. Today’s surprise announcement of a wide-ranging Apple-IBM alliance is likely to put a frown on the faces of many tech execs. As of today, IBM and Apple have signed a broad agreement to put iPads and iPhones in the hands of many of IBMs clients and customers, while Apple has pledged support for the enterprise firm’s software tools and products.
IBM is promising a whole suite of business intelligence applications, cloud services, security and analytics, and device management tools, all to be written for iOS from the ground up and with enterprise customers firmly in mind. Apple, in turn, will offer AppleCare to enterprise customers, including what looks like an enterprise-style agreement to provide on-site repair and replacement services.
This deal, assuming both sides deliver on their respective software solutions, is potentially huge. It expands IBM’s business into touchscreens and tablets, it gives businesses a guaranteed and respected solution for software and hardware, and it gives Apple enormous amounts of enterprise street cred.
This announcement is a clear threat to the few markets where Blackberry still plays, Microsoft’s corporate cash cows, and the BYOD Android trend that Samsung and other vendors have been pushing. Unfortunately, identifying it as a threat is all we can do for now — we need to see more details before we can say more. If Apple and IBM cast their nets narrowly and mostly appeal to IBM’s existing high-end customers, then the impact might not be substantial.
If, on the other hand, the two companies use this as an excuse to try and reach new customer bases, Android, Blackberry, and Windows could all be in a world of hurt. It’s the latest in a series of moves IBM has made to expand its customer base outwards, from aligning itself with Nvidia on HPC computing initiatives to opening up the Power8 architecture.
Of all these moves, however, this IBM-Apple alliance seems the most likely to change the nature of the enterprise computing game — and to rock pretty much everyone back on their heels in the process.
