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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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[–] knotthatone@lemmy.one 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Patches@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Reminder:

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..)

[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

I’d rather just own a printer lol. You guys are making such a big deal over this

[–] vimdiesel@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

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.