Another textbook example of enshittification: profit through rental when profit margin become too thin.
Hardware companies are no longer happy with making money out of the hardware purchases that you make. And not even with all the data that they scoop and sell about you.
Their ultimate goal is for you to pay a subscription in order to keep using their hardware.
Everybody wants you to subscribe to everything. Everybody wants money to come in no matter what.
This race towards the bottom has reached such nauseous heights that it requires public intervention.
Subscription-based models can obviously exist, but, especially in the case of hardware, they should always be sold as add-ons on top of the physical product.
The product should be able to operate with or without the subscription. And even if the producing company goes out of business.
Finally, I'm no legal expert, but I don't see how "genuine cartridge checks" processes etc. can be compatible with the right to repair - and inter-operability more broadly.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/hp-make-printing-subscription
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