Planning on getting the X tonight. AT&T guy not super helpful at explaining their plans, but as i understand it:
AT&T Next: Basically a 2.5 year lease-to-own (the $X cost of phone is divided over 30 monthly installments), but after 2 years you can trade it in for a new phone (i.e. last 6 months are "waived" as you roll into a new lease)
AT&T Next Every Year: Basically a 2 year lease-to-own (the $X cost of phone is divided over 24 monthly installments), but after 1 year you can trade it in for a new phone (i.e. last 12 months are "waived" as you roll into a new lease)
I haven't bought a new phone in 3+ years (current is iPhone 6, which was with the old "$200 every 2 years for the new phone" regime that doesn't exist anymore).
For the iPhone 8, as an example, the Next option is $23/mo, the Next Every Year is $29/mo. So for $6/mo (or $72 for the year), you get to get the new phone next year instead of waiting 2 years. Is that the right way to think about this? It's been so long since I've got a new phone, the annual renewal used to be a much higher expense than every 2 years, but it seems that differential has narrowed?
I have no huge reason to get the iPhone X+1 next year (presuming the X actually works well), but to get it for only $72 (functionally, and rolling into a new lease), that seems like a pretty good deal? It will be more than $72 given the pricing above is for the 8 not the X, but thoughts?
edit: I should do this through the AT&T site tonight, right, not the Apple site?