'Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription' says HP CEO gunning for 2024's Worst Person of the Year award
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Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them all forever!

‘Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription’ says HP CEO gunning for 2024’s Worst Person of the Year award | Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them al…::It was only the other day we reported how HP has been slapped with a lawsuit in response to measures that disable its printers when fitted with a third-party ink cartridge. Now the company’s CEO,

  • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
    28·
    10 months ago

    This really doesn’t seem like a very good long-term investment. Over time people are printing less, not more.

    If you make it difficult to print they’ll make the active effort to move away from your product, which is especially bad given the people are moving away from printing in general anyway.

    • Madison420@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      10 months ago

      Which is why they have to extract a much as possible from their dimishing customer base that are essentially forced to still use them and this have no real choice.

      • jj4211@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        10 months ago

        Except other companies are still in the printer game.

        Got a new brother color laser for under 200 a few weeks back.