As reported by The Reg, HP chief financial officer Marie Myers was talking to investors at the UBS Global Technology conference about the tech giant's subscription model.

HP executive boasts that its controversial ink subscription model is “locking” in customers::undefined

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    511·
    11 months ago

    Or, and bear with me here, consumers could wake up and not purchase garbage?

    It’s been plain for a solid decade+ that consumer inkjets are garbage and money pits. If people keep buying, why should HP stop selling?

    Comes down to a basic question, “Does the government owe it to you to not hurt yourself?” Meh, sometimes yes, sometimes no. Crazy complex for a simple question, ain’t it?

    But if one can’t be assed to take 5-minutes of research before purchasing a printer, seeing how fucked up HP and inkjets are, I can’t help them, and it ain’t the government’s business to stop them.

    • mriormro@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      11 months ago

      Consumer protection from predatory practices is literally “government business”.

    • eric@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      11 months ago

      What a horribly naive and flawed perspective.

      “If people aren’t smart enough to avoid murderers and not get murdered, I can’t help them, and it ain’t the government’s business to stop murders.”

      • You probably
    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      Yeah, gambling, then lootboxes demonstrated citizens need to be protected from dark patterns. And their use by government officials (say by the George W. Bush administration) should be felonious.