No, please don't. If it's as good as you say it is, set what you think is an appropriate one time price, and I'll consider. Paying monthly to use a mouth would be ridiculous.
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Logitech Considers 'Forever Mouse' With Subscription Fee
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This got to be the most ridiculous month in tech news yet.
Crowdstrike giving out Uber gift cards, Tim Sweeney saying thieves need privacy and what now, a subscription mouse?
I can’t even.
Crowdstrike giving out Uber gift cards, Tim Sweeney saying thieves need privacy and what now, a subscription mouse?
I can’t even.
In the "good old days" there was a clear delineation between subscriptions and rentals. Subscriptions (such as to a magazine) would get you new stuff (such as monthly issues) as long as you paid, and if you stopped paying then you'd stop getting new stuff. Rentals required you to give things back when you stopped paying.
Companies like Adobe started renting software but called it a "subscription". Regular people followed suit with the terminology, and it looks like the marketing department won that particular battle.
Black is white blue is yellow. A true “forever” mouse has no subscription, so any mouse, basically. This is the exact opposite. Marketing types are so annoying with the things they come up with.
Great, I was looking for a way to trash some cash. It was either chuck it down the sewer or possibly this.
And I bet the user agreement will specify service and support not guaranteed, and that Logitech can decide to end the program at any time without notice. Forever lasts forever, until it ends abruptly after 4-6 years.
Since a few people have said this on this thread, and if you like to read, I'll just park this here...
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What they need is competition that standardizes and open sources mouse software so any mouse manufacturer can just use that software to make a mouse, thus making the mouse cheaper and more compatible over a long period of time. Having one company trying monopolistic tactics is just wrong and they deserve to lose a lot of money over it if they ever try it.
When I need a mouse, invariably all the magic mice are dead or have connection problems & can never be used, so I just grab this ancient MS mouse... I bought it in like 1999 and it looks like they're still selling it 25 years later. Like a couple other truly great things from that time, it still just really... whips the llama's ass...
