The Future of Gadgets Is Monthly Subscriptions

Paying all at once is going out of fashion

Owen Williams
Debugger
Published in
4 min readSep 30, 2020

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When I found myself slapping the refresh button last week, trying to snag a preorder for an Xbox Series X console, I found myself surprised by a choice right on the buy page: Would I like to subscribe to the hardware, rather than pay the full price up front?

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Owen Williams
Debugger

Fascinated by how code and design is shaping the world. I write about the why behind tech news. Design Manager in Tech. https://twitter.com/ow