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Logitech CEO Wants to Sell You a Subscription-Based 'Forever Mouse' (gizmodo.com)

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During a recent episode of The Verge’s Decoder podcast, Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber shed some possible insight into the company’s view on one of its most important products. Saying that “the mouse built this house,” Faber shares the planning behind a Forever Mouse, a premium product that the company hopes will be the last you ever have to buy. There’s also a discussion about a subscription-based service and a deeper focus on AI.

For now, details on a Forever Mouse are thin, but you better believe there will be a catch. The Instant Pot was a product so good that customers rarely needed to buy another one. The company went bankrupt.

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[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

And I don’t want to buy it. Not everything needs to be a subscription.

[-] coolmojo@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Or an app.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Not everything needs to be a subscription.

More like "[almost] everything needs not to be a subscription!"

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Yep. Products should never need subscriptions. Only services. Things like Photoshop even, absolutely shouldn’t be subscriptions.

[-] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 2 points 4 months ago

And they wonder why we pirate.

[-] JackiesFridge@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A MOUSE

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