Last year I made the mistake of paying full-price for an unlocked iPhone 6s Plus so I could get out of my 2-year contract cycle with AT&T. If I had thought a bit harder about it, I would have gone with Apple’s Upgrade Program.<\/p>\n

From what I can tell, the numbers I crunched last year still stand. In fact, if anything, the Apple Upgrade plan is even a better deal now than it was last year.<\/p>\n

As I said in this article last fall<\/a>, if you like to upgrade every year, if you\u2019re not ultra-thrifty, if you don\u2019t care about keeping your old hardware, and if you like to pay for convenience, then Apple\u2019s Upgrade program actually sounds like a pretty sweet deal.<\/p>\n

The only “inconvenience” of the Apple Upgrade Plan is that you have to make an appointment at an Apple Store to swap out your old phone for the new one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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