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What are your thoughts on these practices? https://youtu.be/zptP3GiaulE
Pratyush Khuntia
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 Â· Oct 25, 2024
Pratyush Khuntia
What are your thoughts on these practices? https://youtu.be/zptP3GiaulE
Pratyush Khuntia
I understand why it's necessary, but is there a better way of achieving the same result?? (survival)
Himanshu Khanna
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I’ll check the video but what’s the TLDR version?
Pratyush Khuntia
pratyushk
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Himanshu Khanna
Himanshu
I’ll check the video but what’s the TLDR version?
Corporate greed, subscriptions on physical products that you own. Example, Not being able to print on HP printers unless you have their ink subscription even if you have their ink in the cartridge.
OCT 26, 2024
Anurag Shastri
anuragshastrii
Ink subscription?
Anurag Shastri
I guess i have an older model. I just need new ink cartridges for printing documents
Pratyush Khuntia
pratyushk
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Anurag Shastri
Anurag
Ink subscription?
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HP CEO wants to 'make printing a subscription'

www.pcworld.com

Pratyush Khuntia
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HP ends always-online printers, subscription ink

www.pcworld.com

It seems they decided to shut down that service after a bunch of lawsuits https://www.pcworld.com/articl…
Pratyush Khuntia
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HP is in the rent-a-printer business now

www.theverge.com

And then decided to create a printer subscription service https://www.theverge.com/2024/…