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Logitech has ‘no plans’ for a subscription mouse (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Xatolos@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 43 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I mean everyone knows that the answer to whether they'd live to do this is "yes", but you don't have to guess. They pretty much say 'yes we're planning it' in PR doublespeak:

Logitech’s stance is “the mouse mentioned is not an actual or planned product but a peek into provocative internal thinking on future possibilities for more sustainable consumer electronics.”

So... They're not planning to make it but they're investigating the market possibility of selling it? Golly PRtalk is rough.

Luckily the CEO comes in hot again for us. Besides comparing the Morse to a Rolex he has this to say:

I’m going to ask this very directly. Can you envision a subscription mouse?

Possibly.

And that would be the forever mouse?

Yeah.

So you pay a subscription for software updates to your mouse.

Yeah, and you never have to worry about it again, which is not unlike our video conferencing services today.

But it’s a mouse.

But it’s a mouse, yeah.

I think consumers might perceive those to be very different.

[Laughs] Yes, but it’s gorgeous. Think about it like a diamond-encrusted mouse.

Diamond crusted to who?

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

SaaS occasionally makes sense but I'm overall against it. Hardware SaaS has been dumb as fuck since AMD tried to charge us extra to unlock cores we already had on the chip and like 6 seconds until we fished out how to get around it.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

think about it like a diamond crusted mouse

Yeah bit it's not... And it's a piece of shit hardware that will cost youaybe 5-10 bucks to produce and you'll soon enough rent it out for 5 bucks per month.

Fuck. You.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

$2 to produce.

Buying stuff direct from China or South Korea, you get to see just how much they tack on for profit.

[–] UselesslyBrisk@infosec.pub 5 points 2 months ago

Logitech has, in fact, EOLd parts of the video conferencing hardware. At best it may continue to work but no longer recieve updates. At worst teams and zoom deprecate APIs that are critical and force you to upgrade.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have a POS wireless mouse given to me by a contracting agency in 2004, that still works fine. I traveled with that thing for years.

I think I'm done with Logitech anything, and they were my go-to for lots of stuff since the late 90's.

[–] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I've got a g700s with a broken wheel and if i can't fix it I'll be pretty sad... But new Logitech products and their new bad support mo means I'll be burying my last logi soldier