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HP CEO says customers who don't use the company's supplies are "bad investments" (www.techspot.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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From my point of view HP printers are a bad investment.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Even the leaflet is just a shitty bandaid. What if someone picked up a printer used and it didn't include the leaflet.

It's outright unacceptable to ship a consumer product that so easily bricks itself like this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

That's a good point actually. I agree, the whole thing is just bananas. HP is a zombie tech company at this point though. You know that graphic that illustrates the product life cycle? HP products are somewhere down in the subway station on that graph