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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

To the downvoters, I mean this in a factual sense, since HP sells printers ar a loss, which is a sort of investment, since they sell the ink at a high markup to recoup their costs and earn money.

So if customers buy their cheap printer, but not their expensive ink, then the investment HP made in the customer is a bad investment for HP.

[–] YeetPics@mander.xyz 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's a bad investment because it's unethical and people care about this sort of stuff (especially when every company under the sun is trying to replicate HP's vampiric nature).

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] YeetPics@mander.xyz 1 points 9 months ago

He can disagree all he wants but the article is about their ink pricing plan underperforming.