HP CEO Says They Brick Printers That Use Third-Party Ink Because of … Hackers::The company says it wants to protect you from “viruses.” Experts are skeptical.

  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Surely this actually cuts into their profits in the longer term? More and more people will simply refuse to buy HP hardware. If they don’t, they deserve to get grifted to high heavens and back at this point.

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      5 months ago

      If they actually bothered to care about the long term, a lot of these companies simply only care about near term and maybe maybe medium term profits