HP has happily facilitated occupation, apartheid and genocide for decades. Fuck em straight to hell
$85 a month for a mediocre laptop that I’m probably not allowed to modify in any way? Yeah, nah.
Nothing says trustworthy like half a kilometre of disclaimers
Fuck HP and everything they sell
Add this to the post of reasons I stopped buying and selling HP.
This is the start of corporations trying to completely phase out owning your own hardware.
This needs to fail hard or it will spread to every other major vendor. But in this timeline every evil deed seems to succeed and be rewarded. Be sure to hoard your old hardware, you’ll likely need it later.
This is the start of corporations trying to completely phase out owning your own hardware.
No, this is just a company that is trying to rename the old leasing concept.
This needs to fail hard or it will spread to every other major vendor. But in this timeline every evil deed seems to succeed and be rewarded. Be sure to hoard your old hardware, you’ll likely need it later.
In the enterprise world this is already a thing, companies already lease many devices (pc, laptop, copy machines, cars, phones etc), it not seems to be that much different.
In the private world, if you have the option to keep the laptop at the end the the rent period, you basically paid for the laptop in instalments, which again it nothing really new, it is already used for phones.
In my opinion the only real big problem is if they stop selling the laptop and only allow you to rent them
I can’t wait for the the renewal where the price doubles, the speed is limited to protect the battery, the privacy policy changes and they share your browsing data in real time, sell your fingerprints and facial recognition data and give you kne day to renew at the higher price or cancel without penalty like those cocksuckers at Adobe do.
The exec behind that needs to be homeless
The exec behind that needs to be homeless
god bless 🙏
mouse clicks are refillable
Some years ago there was a fake ad on that, but even then I couldn’t decide if that was a joke or a market test
Companies pivoting to rent seeking is an awful trend.
Ever since my first HP laptop – before I knew any better – I have despised HP and every product of theirs I’ve ever had to use. Consumer laptops full of bloatware. Online knowledge bases poorly designed. Printers full of bugs. Gah, they’re just the worst.
The fine print is worse. If you cancel, you owe a fee equal to the rental price for the remainder of the year.
e machines did this back in the 90’s/00’s to predictably failed results.
Everything old is new again…
“This computer will never go out of date” indeed.
Bleak.
Starting at $35 per month you too can rent an AI laptop that will fulfill HP’s every need.
Not so distant future. Subscriptions on premium air… basic air includes toxins. Same for water. The fuckers that created the contamination are the ones selling the subscription. CAPITALISM!
