HP selling hardware with digital blackmail fees
this post was submitted on 20 Dec 2023
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Subscription-based hardware business models, or anything that is cloud-based have a strong tendency to do this. They sucker you into buying their hardware with rock bottom prices and reasonable subscription fees and slowly they increase the prices and put more and more features and functionalities behind increasing paywalls.
Never buy anything that you don't fully own after paying for it.
in the year of our lord below 2023, it is so easy to just go to a print shop the 0.5 times per year you have to print something
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We solved printing decades ago. What’s the need to constantly add more complexity in pricing? It’s not like there were major breakthroughs in technology or something. Printing is printing.
We've had some major breakthroughs in gouging and selling things as a service at exorbitant rates.
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Maybe you should think a little more about the shareholders and little less about yourself. /s
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Laughs in Epson Ecotank
God, the amount of times I've had to explain the EcoTank vs HP math to customers in my store, and then STILL have them pick an HP is fucking baffling.
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omg, fuck these guys
Good, HP finally running their printer businesses into the ground. Paperless or bust.
HP is like the facebook of printers. Hugely popular; absolute shit product.
I actually have a HP printer with instant ink. When it first launched it was great, there was a "free" tier that was like up to 10 pages free per month.
I don't print a lot but like having a printer for the odd job so that was ideal for me. Now and again a new ink cartridge would arrive and I just didn't think about it.
But they took away the free tier, so I've been on that £0.99 plan which is like 15 pages a month. I put up with it because it was convenient enough to not have to worry about ink, but I was still pissed off at the rug pull.
If they do raise the price in the UK, I'll just sell the printer and buy a new one that does super cheap ink.
Any recommendations out there?
Inkjet is pretty much terrible for anyone printing very little (more ink wasted on cleaning cycles than actually printing, high chance that the ink dries up regardless) and very much (stupidly expensive and unreliable).
If you don't need color, get a cheap b/w laser printer. Brother used to be one of the last good ones until they, too, decided to block third party cartridges via firmware updates last year.
If you can get an old, used, Brother laser printer for cheap, go for it - they were borderline indestructible and would print with any cheap toner.
Damn, and I thought brother was gonna keep riding out being good until the bitter end
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I have two Epson ecotank printers, one at home and one for small business. Not cheap, but the ink that comes with the printer lasts for years. That is at 30 pages a month or so. Avoid all inkjet printers with replaceable ink cartridges.
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Anything corporations think you can't do without will be raised until enough people have no choice but to stop buying them, then they'll hold it there.
HP taking business ideas from Elon I see.
“The beatings will continue until moral improves”