Variety is the spice of life, but reality is full of commitments. Buying a car typically means being stuck with a specific model for the duration of ownership . If you have enough money to burn, however, Cadillac has another option: don’t own a car. Subscribe to one. Today the company announced Cadillac Book, a “luxury vehicle subscription service” that lets you rent various Cadillac vehicles on the fly. Basically, it’s an app-based rental service that carries only one brand of vehicle and costs $1, 500 a month. Cadillac is selling the idea as a convenience service — Book members don’t own their car, but they aren’t responsible for insurance or maintenance either. They also have the option to trade it out for another vehicle at a drop of the hat. If the sedan you normally borrow from the service doesn’t have enough room for an upcoming road trip, all you have to do is tap a few buttons in the service’s app, and Book will deliver the SUV to your home lickity split. The trade off, of course, is Book users still don’t own that car, and they’re paying more for the service than they would in financing the vehicle. It’s like Spotify , but for cars. Do you care if you own the music if you have access to it whenever you want? It’s an interesting idea, but at $1, 500, it’s clearly only aimed at a wealthy demographic. Still, it’s a month to month service — so if you’re willing to pay $50 a day for your own personal fleet of luxury cars, you can have it for a shorter-term rental. The service is expected to launch in February in New York, and will expand to other markets later. Source: Cadillac
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Cadillac is renting vehicles as a subscription service for $1,500 a month
TechRax — a popular YouTuber who destroys technology for fame and riches — has uploaded a video where he drills a hole into an iPhone 7, claiming it to be a “secret hack” to reinstall a headphone jack in the device. The only problem is that he didn’t tell people it was a joke, and of course, some people fell for it. Crave Online reports: The YouTube video has amassed over 7.5 million views since being posted online last week, with it attracting 81, 000 dislikes in the process. The comments section is currently torn between people who are in on the joke, people who criticize TechRax for damaging his iPhone 7, and most unfortunately, people who have tried the “hack” out for themselves. Although this is YouTube so you can never be quite sure of whether or not these folks are trolling, parsing the comments section reveals some pretty convincing complaints lobbed in TechRax’s direction. It’s also firmly believable that there are people dumb enough to attempt drilling a hole into their iPhone 7, which is unfortunate but that’s the way the world is in 2016. You can read the comments under the YouTube video for more “convincing complaints.” But as if the report didn’t make it clear enough already, the video is a joke. Apple removed the headphone jack and there’s no way to get it back, unless you use an adapter. Read more of this story at Slashdot. 
