What do you all think?

Some investors want Apple to sell its iPhone on a subscription basis to shift more of Apple’s revenue from transactional sales to recurring revenue.

Apple CEO Tim Cook doesn’t shoot down the idea during a conference call on Wednesday and suggests that Apple is working on new ways to pay for iPhones on a monthly basis.

“We’re cognizant that there are lots of users out there that want a sort of a recurring payment like that,” Cook says.

[www.cnbc.com]

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Sure.

Seems that Apple's main goal has been to avoid reporting any substantive info during quarterly reports and this would do the job nicely.

The law allows companies to shift around the way that they count subscription revenue to completely obscure actual sales and income. Microsoft and Adobe have made great strides with this tool.

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everything is subscription in our future.

Anyone looking forward to Spouse Subscription? don't like current partner, just don't renew the contact in two years and shop around for a new one. The world would probably be a better place.

just joking... but I am sure some would take this seriously. In fact I remember reading many years ago about something like short term marriages, I can't remember where it was, perhaps Iran?

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everything is subscription in our future.

Including clean air and water...things are going to get much worse than many people imagine.

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everything is subscription in our future.

Anyone looking forward to Spouse Subscription? don't like current partner, just don't renew the contact in two years and shop around for a new one. The world would probably be a better place.

just joking... but I am sure some would take this seriously. In fact I remember reading many years ago about something like short term marriages, I can't remember where it was, perhaps Iran?

I believe Wiccans do that, handfasting (marriage) is for one year and one day, renewable after that.

So it's like leasing a car? Doesn't every cell phone company do this? An upgrade every year type of deal.

An upgrade every year type of deal.

At the cost of never owning a phone deal, and always paying for both a phone and access deals.

I may be over reacting a little, but I see trash can fires on every corner, debris in the streets, and military vehicles driving around and randomly checking our 'documents', all in a very gray future.

Somewhere between Gotham and The Handmaid's Tale / 12 Monkeys.

At least there will come a time when kids on our lawn aren't the problem.

I wish you all good luck.

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I am that Masked Man.

All you can do, is all you can do.

There’s trouble — it's time to play the sound of my people.

Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for.

Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.

I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters.

We are a government of laws, not men.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
by believing all possible evil of evil men.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.

Can a company come out with a subscription model for pants, boots and toothbrushes as well? SIGN ME UP!

"But wait you never own that pair of pants."
So?? I got a new pair of pants. You want the old pair? Be my guest.

You guys are making glad to be closer to death than birth

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“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.” -- François de La Rochefoucauld

"Those who cannot accept the past are condemned to revise it." -- Geo. Mathias

The German word for contraceptive is “Schwangerschaftsverhütungsmittel”. By the time you finished saying that, it’s too late