HP misreads room, awkwardly brags about its “less hated” printers
Opinion: HP's printer business practices have infuriated users for years.
HP misreads room, awkwardly brags about its “less hated” printers
Opinion: HP's printer business practices have infuriated users for years.
That ship sailed, HP. They even couldn't pay me to use their stuff anymore.
@arstechnica I would never, in a million years buy an #HP #printer. Specially not an #inkjet printer. HP is an evil company and needs to go fuck itself.
@arstechnica this was on purpose. It's called gaslighting.
@arstechnica It's axiomatic that "Friends don't let friends buy HP printers".
@arstechnica I bought a Brother laser #printer a while ago and would happily buy another next time. I won’t buy another HP printer. Absolutely not.
@arstechnica They really do have some serious nerve. They have been the absolute *WORST* at all this. I'm pretty sure they were actually the first at it all in fact. I can certainly say that of all the brands I had used over the years, the HP printers were the first and the worst about things like refusing to print plain text if a color ran out (and wasting color ink on plain text in the first place btw) and adding chips to cartridges that "verify" they are first party and etc.
@arstechnica man they should look at customer satisfaction of HP vs Brother, before choosing that particular tack…
@arstechnica There was a time where buying an HP printer was a smart move: directly supported on most OSes, using documented standards, not relying on proprietary software.
This is long gone.
I sometimes wonder if those ink programs make financial sense, but with reported margins growing: no, definitively not.
Never buy a product that’s proud to lock you in, if you can avoid it.
(That’s kind of funny to be typed on an Apple device. 🙄 Good thing I can avoid buying printers…)
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