Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 10 months ago

HP executive boasts that its controversial ink subscription model is "locking" in customers

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HP executive boasts that its controversial ink subscription model is "locking" in customers

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Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 10 months ago

As reported by The Reg, HP chief financial officer Marie Myers was talking to investors at the UBS Global Technology conference about the tech giant's subscription model.

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The downside is that if it’s a brand new one, it may take a while to become useful.
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  Good point. Thankfully theres a thriving second-hand Brother market.
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    This is starting to sound a little too slavery-y…
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      And here I was thinking of the Big Brothers/Big Sisters program lol

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