Legislation is Way overdue for this nonsense. My home security cameras are all being disabled and unable to record videos as they have for years because the company (fuck you Arlo) has decided they want users to just suddenly start paying subscription fees. If we let them every company will eventually move to this model. Even staunch capitalists need to recognize that this is an issue begging for legislation. Stop this insanity.
Thats absolutely outrageous. Thats a brand I’ll never be purchasing.
Legislation is the only way to reign it in, of course they’d scream “but prices would go up!”. I’d rather pay a few bucks more up front to not pay 10x as much in ink later. The whole subscription model is awful too. They are turning our whole lives into rentals.
I’m sure if they did legislate it they’d do everything they could to try to work around it.
Sure it’s cat and mouse, but the mouse doesn’t do well if it just let’s the cat bat it around the room.
That’s why I never cry for Adobe when they get pirated.
For anyone in the market for a printer: brother.
Got an epson with an ecotank and quite happy with it.
Ink jet printers really are the embodiment of peak capitalism.
I can’t wait until a company like Apple creates their own printers and somehow makes it worse.
Uh… they did make printers, starting in the 80s some were pretty decent: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apple_printers
I didn’t know this. But Apple is a different company than they were in the 80’s and i feel that it would still be bad today.
Edit: or the 90’s when they made their last models according to that article.
