@[email protected] to TechnologyEnglish • edit-26 hours agoBrother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals [see comments]www.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square207fedilinkarrow-up11.14Karrow-down14file-textcross-posted to: hardware[email protected][email protected]
arrow-up11.13Karrow-down1external-linkBrother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals [see comments]www.tomshardware.com@[email protected] to TechnologyEnglish • edit-26 hours agomessage-square207fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: hardware[email protected][email protected]
Brother deny the claims: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/brother-denies-using-firmware-updates-to-brick-printers-with-third-party-ink/ via https://startrek.website/comment/15279250
minus-square@lefixxxlinkEnglish61•edit-210 hours agoBrother losing all competitive advantage they had via reputation. Doing a very big 180 and reversing the changes and commiting to no do t his BS is the only way to undo this
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish22•17 hours agoThey must’ve hired some new analysts that said “hey, people are willing to accept less! Why are we doing more?” It’s up to the people to prove them wrong, but that usually doesn’t happen :\
Brother losing all competitive advantage they had via reputation. Doing a very big 180 and reversing the changes and commiting to no do t his BS is the only way to undo this
They must’ve hired some new analysts that said “hey, people are willing to accept less! Why are we doing more?”
It’s up to the people to prove them wrong, but that usually doesn’t happen :\
Losing*