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Consumer tech is headed for a subscription economy | Ian Cutress

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“These ‘subsidised gadgets’ could that be more of a thing going forward. Yes.”Chief analyst at More Than Moore and YouTuber Dr Ian Cutress tells The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound that consumers are already familiar with purchasing phones or cars on a contract and it is something that could become more common place as data centres continue to “gobble up” chip supply. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“These ‘subsidised gadgets’ could that be more of a thing going forward. Yes.”Chief analyst at More Than Moore and YouTuber Dr Ian Cutress tells The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound that consumers are already familiar with purchasing phones or cars on a contract and it is something that could become more common place as data centres continue to “gobble up” chip supply. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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