'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...
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,
Most people shouldn't buy a home printer at all anymore. Unless you're a crafter or work in a field that still uses lots of paper (i.e. law) they're not worth it.
It's a rapidly shrinking market and HP knows there's no saving it so I guess they're following the cable company playbook.
Squeeze your remaining customers as hard as possible before the music stops
Your local library can print documents for you for an insignificant sum. So can every Office Supply store - though they're worse in every way. Also so can your local shipping supply store (UPS, etc..)
There's no reason not to buy a brother or canon if you need a good laser printer to make hard copies of stuff. Not everybody wants to back everything up to the cloud and like hard copies or need it for their business.