alt Hacker NewsInterestingly, Apple is apparently going to be able to nerf the devices if the customer misses a series of payments. [1]
Presumably this ability means that Klarna has a lower risk of nonpayment, and is willing to accept a smaller cut of the total price from Apple.
1: https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/21/ios-27-code-suggests-apple-co...
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blackqueeriroh • yesterday at 1:59 AM
I’m confused where it says they will be able to nerf them.
Reads to me like there’s code that could be that, but it’s not certain.
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Note that they already do this if you buy a mac on an Apple Card, and they even go so far as to link your AppleID that you may have had for decades. I bought a new mac last year and signed up for the 0% Apple Card financing and if I'd have known about this little bit of leverage they use, I would have created a brand new AppleID to partition it off.