This is a perfect case of competition and the free market working. Mostly. (Read till the end.)
HP is free to fuck their customers all they please. Customers are free to never be HP customers again.
Brother is free to make a printer that beats the pants off HP. Consumers are free to purchase those instead.
HP printers should be a self-resolving issue, but you can’t legislate consumer wisdom.
I will point out some evil shit I’ve seen this week: Months ago, people were on here bitching about HP. “How hard is it to Google ‘hp printers’ and find a slew of people hating on them?!” And sure enough, I got a page full of pure HP rage.
Tried that again this week, with verbatim results turned on and off, mostly top lists, HP ads and sunshine. Sure there are some visible complaints, but you would expect that someone, somewhere, is going to hate on any given product.
Can’t someone start an open-soruce printer with cheap ink to compete with this?
I’m not a big believer in competition and the free market, but can’t they do SOMETHING? Just this once?
On my heap of projects for a while but I have ADHD so, there is a distinct possibility that I’ll never start or finish it.
This is a perfect case of competition and the free market working. Mostly. (Read till the end.)
HP is free to fuck their customers all they please. Customers are free to never be HP customers again.
Brother is free to make a printer that beats the pants off HP. Consumers are free to purchase those instead.
HP printers should be a self-resolving issue, but you can’t legislate consumer wisdom.
I will point out some evil shit I’ve seen this week: Months ago, people were on here bitching about HP. “How hard is it to Google ‘hp printers’ and find a slew of people hating on them?!” And sure enough, I got a page full of pure HP rage.
Tried that again this week, with verbatim results turned on and off, mostly top lists, HP ads and sunshine. Sure there are some visible complaints, but you would expect that someone, somewhere, is going to hate on any given product.