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I’ve already got a “forever mouse”.
I plug it in, it needs no updates because it’s a fucking mouse.
this type of shit should be illegal
Tangential: Is there any community for mice akin to the mechanical keyboard community?
Would love to buy an alternative but every time I do any research it boils down to “razer or logitech” with everything else being orders of magnitude shittier.
How exactly are software updates supposed to extend the life of a mouse?
I get that theoretically with a subscription, they could offer to replace your mouse if the hardware broke. (Sortof like an extended warranty that you reup every month or year or whatever. Not that that isn’t a scam, but I can at least see how it could maybe look good on paper to certain people.) But that has nothing to do with software.
If the software breaks due to a software problem (and, be honest, how many people in the history of the world have ever had a mouse break due to a software problem?), I’d think it would be unlikely you could get an update to the mouse. And if the hardware breaks, the chance that it can be fixed (or even worked around) with a software update seems negligible.
Are they thinking with software updates they’ll make it continue to support newer wireless communication protocols that don’t exist yet or some BS like that? Not that that makes sense either.
Am I missing something or is the BS in this idea more evident than in most?
That’s exactly the point I don’t get. Every single mouse I owned, I’ve replaced it because something physically broke. My previous mouse (Logi btw) was replaced because the scroll wheel and middle click stopped working, no software or firmware update would amend that!
some of their higher end mice let you call specific functions of popular productivity software, like using the scroll wheel to change the brush size in Photoshop for example
(and, be honest, how many people in the history of the world have ever had a mouse break due to a software problem?)
Many moons ago, in the dark ages of Windows Vista, I had a laptop where the trackpad stopped working permanently after a specific Windows Update.
my forever mouse is a 15+ years old mx518
Right? If it was a g604 I might be tempted…
“Forever subscription mouse”
Company that makes Mice: Hey, what if we actually built a good mouse!
This is why Chinese knock offs are winning.
Not because of price, but because of shit like this.
Even assuming that I wasn’t put off by having a subscription for a physical object, how could it possibly be financially viable for me to do that.
It would be cheaper for me to simply buy a new mouse every 4 or 5 years, and realistically I don’t replace my mice that often. It’s a mouse they don’t really get to be that expensive even if you go for all the optional bells and whistles.
Yeah that’s the point at the price point they have in mind it’s definitely not viable
2 years from now: “Why are Logitech sales down?”
Fucking MBAs
Logitech has an idea for a “forever mouse”
Great, my money is good to go. I’ll pay big for something that’s easy to keep clean and doesn’t have that horrible sticky rubber after a few years.
that requires a subscription
I’m out.
This was my reaction too when I read the title, complete with curiosity about what they mean with “forever”.
Forever: until we decide that we no longer want to maintain the product, rendering it useless and forcing you to by whatever we replace it with
forever subscription, you say?
I don’t know how they think I could afford subscriptions for every object in my life. There’s no way
Unless it were like $0.20 a month which is equivalent to buying a $25 every ten years, there’s no point.
But they will probably try and charge something stupid like $5 a month or $10 a month for their supreme collectors edition package.
And even then, I’d rather not have to keep paying for a subscription that could stop and brick my mouse at any time when they decide to “consolidate their product offerings” like Spotify did with the Car Thing. (plus, card fees would mean they’d actually be losing $0.05-$0.10 or more off the purchase price every time your card gets charged, at that price point)
To be fair… I read the whole interview a few days ago, she was kind of pushed into this statement. The idea from the CEO was presented as a high-end luxury mouse that you’d treat like a fancy watch you could just repair and never need to replace. The closest we got to Logitech saying this was the interviewer asking if they could ever see a subscription being attached to the mouse and the CEO saying ‘possibly’ and then implying that it could be something like a maintenance/repair contract so that you would never have to worry about your mouse.
This whole ordeal was mostly just poor form in interviewing where the interviewer pushed the interviewee into a statement that they knew would be good clickbait.
Well… they don’t think about you at all except for wanting to squeeze money out of you. If that takes literally squeezing you in a hydraulic press they’d do it as long as the penalty was financial (not jail time for the CEO) but also that the penalty cost was less than the profit they got from murdering you.
This is how every company is now, every billionaire. It sounds like an extreme thought, yes, but … the absolute ultimate greed is also extreme 🤷♂️
You have several ‘backup’ organs, just saying.
Luckily I can buy a perfectly decent mouse that lasts forever for £5
I was intrigued by the idea, I was like, “oooh a modular mouse where it could be a trackball or vertical mouse or multi-sensor components with obvious replacement parts that they’d sell to make it easy on repair”!
Then I saw software and I’m like wtf? do I look like I need something else to Crowdstrike me? “Can’t work today boss, credit card didn’t update my mouse subscription hang on…”
