The Apple iPhone 18 Pro is (almost) free before Black Friday — how to claim
THE SO WHAT
Aggressive carrier subsidies that make a flagship iPhone "almost free" keep high-end hardware in circulation, which in turn expands the addressable base for on-device AI and rich apps. If your product assumes modern sensors and local compute, this kind of promo quietly de-risks your minimum spec.
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