‘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,
No where in there was anything about what the consumer wants or needs. Just theirs
Their cheap. HP lowest end printers were always cheaper then the ink. Customers buy the wireless ink with a subscription and think it’s a convenience. It’s a scam but it’s a scam that works.
Basically now that everyone is poor this is how tech companies will address customer needs: low barrier for every and a subscription.