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TiredOfLife • today at 1:26 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Renting, it's renting the device.

You need to drill a hole into a concrete wall once - you rent the drill. You spend every day drilling countless holes - you buy the drill.


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muyuu • today at 4:01 PM

for the device, the analogy works better, like with coin op arcade machines back in the day

in this case, you're clearly not allocating a device for your sole usage for a given period of time; it's a gaming SAAS, which isn't really renting