Cash may be king but pay-over-time is the new way that many manufacturers are getting around the sticker shock of technology. Apple announced its version just yesterday. Microsoft has long had a business Surface leasing program called LiftForward. And, of course, you can always pay for your cell phone over time through a phone company. […]

ISSUE 23.25 • 2026-06-22 COMMENTARY By Will Fastie The past few years have witnessed a surge of Arm processors. Of course, the Arm architecture has been around in phones for a long time. But even though phones have cohesive ecosystems built around Arm, we tend to think of phones as nothing more than appliances, not […]