Damn Logitech, you've been my go-to for peripherals for a couple of decades now
Don't fuck this up
this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2024
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You know they will, just making a good product isn't enough, they need to somehow sell us more bullshit so they can make infinitely more money than ever all the time. So Logitech will absolutely go through with something like this
Logitech CEO can fuck right off.
Logitech's quality has been steadily dropping. Got fed up with thumb trackball buttons failing in less than 2 years. Logitech was my go to for most computer peripherals, but I just can't justify replacing all my family's trackballs every two years at $60 a pop.
Switched over to Elecom because they are one of the only brands selling wired thumb trackballs and so far they are great. It's unfortunate, my first Logitech trackball lasted at least 10 years. It never broke, just got lost in a move. Used to love their stuff but, the only thing left from the Logitech I bought my first trackball from is the name.
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If I mistake your shit ideas as an Onion article, you should be fired. Who would pay monthly on a mouse?
More like the never mouse, you can keep the monthly sub peripherals.
Faber states that “[It] was a little heavier, it had great software and services that you’d constantly update, and it was beautiful.”
Magnesium mouse
OR
Forever subscription
Hard to decide here, fellas. Idk.
Logitech stuff is already sort of a subscription based service, since their stuff is designed to fail after around 2 years.
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given how much is going on in the diy / open source keyboard community, I'm sure there's going to be some options
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Try getting them to last longer than 2 years before the scroll wheel breaks before you try to stump this shit
MaaS?
I use a computer a lot, and I have an expensive keyboard and mouse. I'm the target market in a sense; if there was a compelling enough upgrade to either, I'd probably buy it.
I can't imagine what software features they could possibly offer that would qualify, doubly so as a subscription. I picked my mouse because it has lots of buttons, a responsive sensor, low-latency wireless, and it runs on a standardized replaceable battery. It would be hard to improve any of that with software.
There's one way subscription-based hardware might be a good idea: it would motivate the companies to focus on quality and repairability, because they would be the ones who have to deal with that stuff. Unless of course if the EULA of such hardware is complete shit. Which of course it will be.
It will be much cheaper for the company to replace rather than repair, then they don't have to pay technicians
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