Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 1 year 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 • 1 year ago

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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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10•1 year ago
Good point. Thankfully theres a thriving second-hand Brother market.
- @neocamel@lemmy.studio
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  5•1 year ago
  This is starting to sound a little too slavery-y…
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    6•1 year ago
    And here I was thinking of the Big Brothers/Big Sisters program lol

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