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'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... (www.pcgamer.com)
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'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,

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Greedy rent-seeking garbage humans would make breathing a subscription if they could. And the sad and scary part is that for some reason there are people ready and willing to pay for the Premium Oxygen Subscription Plus with unlimited breaths per day and the Gold Blinking Packaage added for free for the first month ($99.95 after that)...

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The irony is that even that satire didn't envision something so cartoonishly evil as a subscription business model.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What's that picture from? It seems familiar.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Spaceballs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Thanks

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Just so long as they don't have to think about it, subscriptions are just fine with such people. 🤦‍♂️