Mon. 06/15 – People Are Actually MORE Honest On Their Cellphones
Tech Brew Ride Home
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🗓️ 15 June 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Tech Meam Ride Home for Monday, June 15th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough. |
| 0:08.8 | Today, the Zero Interest Mac financing is finally here. Shopify and Walmart team up as they probably should. |
| 0:16.6 | Is Mr. Bezos about to go to Washington? |
| 0:19.0 | Interesting check-ins with Quibi and Softbank and why researchers think people are more honest when responding on their smartphones |
| 0:25.2 | than on their PCs. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. |
| 0:28.7 | And here you go. As we speculated on last week, Apple this morning did indeed launch |
| 0:37.4 | Zero Interest Financing on the Apple card for purchases of iPads, Max, AirPods, and most of its other products, even the Apple Pencil. |
| 0:47.0 | Depending on what you buy, you can stretch out the payments for six to 12 months. |
| 0:51.0 | Again, interest-free, quoting 9 to 5 Mac. |
| 0:54.4 | In December, Apple launched a new iPhone 0% financing option |
| 0:57.7 | for Apple card users, |
| 0:58.6 | and during Apple's most recent earnings call |
| 1:00.5 | with investors, Tim Cook teased that similar promotions would soon be |
| 1:03.8 | available for other Apple products and recent reports indicated the |
| 1:06.8 | rollout was imminent. These new options are available starting today. The |
| 1:10.6 | financing options vary by product, for example higher priced items like the Mac The financing |
| 1:14.0 | like the Mac and iPad Pro offer 12-month financing with 0% interest. |
| 1:19.0 | Cheaper items like AirPods and AirPods Pro offer 6-month financing with zero percent interest. |
| 1:24.4 | Apple Watch is excluded from these financing options for unknown reasons. |
| 1:28.8 | For example, you can finance AirPods Pro with zero percent interest for six months, which equates to $41.50 per month. |
| 1:36.0 | AirPods with wireless charging case can be financed for $33.16 per month. |
| 1:40.9 | You can finance a 16-inch Macbook Pro starting at $199.91 for 12 months and |
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