The RAM crisis just forced Framework into a nasty price hike — and Apple's rumored solution to the memory crunch is renting Macs to cash-strapped consumers
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A RAM crunch driving price hikes while Apple explores renting Macs and iPhones is a reminder that hardware constraints quickly become business model experiments. If you ship software tied to specific devices, you need to plan for more users on rentals and subscriptions rather than owned hardware.
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