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HP Stops Selling Printers, Starts Selling Prints
An anonymous reader writes "HP has launched a new line of business printers but there's a big catch — you won't be able to buy one. For the first time in history, the company will make customers purchase printing services, rather than the product itself. At its biggest printer launch since the LaserJet in 1984, HP's new business-class Edgeline printers will only be available through a managed services contract. Pricing will be per page, depending on the quality of the printout. Edgeline technology is said to be so ink-efficient that if HP were to sell these printers, they would never match the money they make from consumables (cartridges etc) now."
Why capitalism doesnt work.
Communism instills ownership of the state on all tangible assets.
Corporatism instills that ownership is of the corporation via all applicable tools to do so.
Ask yourself this: How much stuff do you OWN (not rent, borrow, lease, or other keywords) ?
Imagine, if you will, that Intel somehow made an accidental but breakthrough discovery: They could make computers that work 1,000x faster, and have only scratched the surface.
...
... ...this kind of scenario could never happen.
But: They won't sell them to anybody.
They make tons of money, selling their grid computing capacities, at way below cost.
"Intel Search" replaces Google search.
Now suppose Intel were, then, to take a sudden interest in AI research,
Mind you, they've patented their work, and said, "We won't sell our work to anybody, on the entire planet."
But we can rest assured,
Except there area lot of FREE security products out there that are pretty good... BOGGLES TEH MIND
Why did some twit mod this offtopic?
FTM, who modded the posts critical of Zonk's lack-of-editing offtopic?
Both are pretty damn topical.
Hail Eris, full of mischief...
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