Relying on the place you might be on the earth, the iPhone 14 line most likely both prices the identical because the iPhone 13 line did at launch or a bit extra, however both means these are very costly telephones. Nonetheless, there would possibly quickly be a brand new means to purchase them that allows you to unfold the associated fee.

Apple has for some time been rumored to be engaged on a subscription service for iPhones and doubtlessly different {hardware}, and in response to Mark Gurman – a Bloomberg journalist with a fantastic monitor file when involves Apple leaks – the corporate would possibly roll the service out both late this yr or early subsequent yr.

Gurman mentioned as a lot within the newest version of his Energy On e-newsletter (opens in new tab), moreover claiming that “Apple is actively testing this new service.”

This service wouldn’t simply be a strategy to repay your iPhone progressively. Reasonably, it could be an ongoing subscription that you simply’d pay for so long as you retain the telephone, however would probably embrace the choice to swap your handset out for a brand new mannequin, and would apparently combine with the corporate’s Apple One software program subscriptions.

So, for a (most likely excessive, however at the moment unknown) month-to-month payment, you’d have ongoing entry to the most recent Apple {hardware}, and software program companies equivalent to Apple Music and Apple Health Plus.

As for when this subscription service would possibly land, Gurman doesn’t get extra particular than later this yr or early subsequent yr, however the subsequent probably alternative for an announcement could be the brand new iPad Professional 2022 and the brand new iPad 2022, that are rumored to be showing at an occasion in October.

Evaluation: why wasn’t this launched on the iPhone 14 announcement?

It appears odd that Apple didn’t announce its subscription service in the course of the iPhone 14 announcement, because the firm may have attracted a whole lot of sign-ups from clients who will now as a substitute buy their new telephone within the regular means, both direct from Apple or through a provider.

In line with Gurman, Apple determined towards this in an effort to “cut back launch day complexity. After all of it, it should add a wholly new means to purchase an iPhone.”

That may have been the proper name too, because the iPhone 14 ordering course of has been something however easy to date. As reported by 9to5Mac (opens in new tab), supply estimates for a lot of fashions rapidly slipped to October, and reportedly some individuals who had been informed they’d get their telephone on launch day (September 16) subsequently noticed that date slip.

Plus, there have been reviews of assorted errors throughout checkout, with some clients inadvertently buying a number of telephones, as they had been informed an order had failed when it had truly accomplished.

So whereas it might need been good to have the choice to order an iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Professional or iPhone 14 Professional Max on subscription, including one other complication to an already glitchy ordering course of probably wouldn’t have gone properly.