• Admiral Patrick
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    3094 months ago

    So it sounds like they did have plans, or at least ideas, for it but are now backtracking after the 100% deserved backlash.

    • Eager Eagle
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      304 months ago

      every company brainstorms at some point and come up with a few good and a lot of bad ideas;

      it doesn’t make it any closer to being a reality, the only difference is that this was made public.

        • @[email protected]
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          174 months ago

          We have subscription services in cars now.

          I’m betting it’ll happen either way.

          It’s a fucking stupid future.

            • @AntY
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              34 months ago

              And this is one reason why I hate modern cars. But then again, there’s no alternative, and that sucks.

              • @pirat
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                14 months ago

                there’s no alternative

                Older cars?

                • @AntY
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                  14 months ago

                  Maybe for now, but there’s fewer and fewer around. In ten-twenty years time it will be hard to find a 90s car with reasonable mileage.

              • @[email protected]
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                184 months ago

                Looks like tesla offers a premium subscription for most things and a separate one for the fancy cruise control… So I assume you have an old model or your being a troll?

                  • @TrickDacy
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                    44 months ago

                    Sounds like you’re the one confused about it yourself.

                    Weird, my Tesla has 0.

          • @frunch
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            14 months ago

            Exactly–and someone had to make the unpopular decision to announce it and weather the first round of criticisms. They also will be the first to profit from said stupid idea when they roll it out and the dumbs line up to buy it for fomo reasons or whatever

      • sunzu
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        254 months ago

        They were running it by to see if the host will accept the parasite. They will be back folks

    • @HRDS_654
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      194 months ago

      The new CEO had the beginning of an idea in an interview. The interviewer tried to push back while still keeping the interview going, but it became messy real quick.

      • Admiral Patrick
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        344 months ago

        If that’s the new CEO’s first idea, good luck, Logitech.

        Patel: I’m going to ask this very directly. Can you envision a subscription mouse?

        Faber: Possibly.

        • @HRDS_654
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          It was so bad Nilay Patel had to apologize (semi-seriously) about causing a news cycle about a mouse.

      • @DxK
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        4 months ago

        Same thing happened earlier this year with Wendy’s new CEO. His brilliant plan to make a name for himself was rolling out dynamic pricing. After days of well deserved backlash Wendy’s had to come out and walk it back while insisting they had never planned to use this to do lunch/dinner surge pricing.

        • @pirat
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          04 months ago

          Isn’t that what pizzerias and such often do, though, to get more customers in throughout the day? Where I live, a pizza for lunch is often like 20-40% cheaper than a pizza for dinner, and I think that’s actually alright.

    • @TrickDacy
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      64 months ago

      They were just throwing it out to gauge reaction. They won’t give up on the idea just yet.

    • @Snapz
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      34 months ago

      Still 1000% have those plans, they are just going to get quiet about them externally for a bit longer now.