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Logitech CEO Wants to Sell You a Subscription-Based 'Forever Mouse'

During a recent episode of The Verge’s Decoder podcast, Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber shed some possible insight into the company’s view on one of its most important products. Saying that “the mouse built this house,” Faber shares the planning behind a Forever Mouse, a premium product that the company hopes will be the last you ever have to buy. There’s also a discussion about a subscription-based service and a deeper focus on AI.

For now, details on a Forever Mouse are thin, but you better believe there will be a catch. The Instant Pot was a product so good that customers rarely needed to buy another one. The company went bankrupt.

barsquid ,

No.

Gerudo ,

Guess I’m either stocking up a couple extra 502 mice now, or I need to find a new mouse. I’m not looking forward to trying to find a new mouse, the 502 is perfect in my hand.

9point6 ,

Damn Logitech, you’ve been my go-to for peripherals for a couple of decades now

Don’t fuck this up

TrousersMcPants ,

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

homesweethomeMrL ,

Bite my shiny metal PS/2 adapter

noisypine ,

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.

BeardedBlaze ,
@BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world avatar

Never heard of Elecom. Thank you for that.

InternetUser2012 ,

Hard pass.

Sanctus ,
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

Magnesium mouse

OR

Forever subscription

Hard to decide here, fellas. Idk.

stefenauris ,
@stefenauris@pawb.social avatar

Businesses could save a lot of money by just firing their CEOs

NegativeInf ,

If anyone’s job could be replaced with ChatGPT, it’s these chucklefucks.

simplejack ,
@simplejack@lemmy.world avatar

Reminds me of what happed to GE’s lighting division. They used to have a steady stream of income from people replacing burned out bulbs. The CFLs and LED bulbs came in.

GE made a ton of money selling the new bulbs to homes, businesses and cities, but then the money dried up because the new bulbs lasted way longer.

Then they started scrambling to do weird shit with lighting. Like cramming cameras and sensors into bulbs so lights could be used for surveillance in cities and stores. They were basically struggling to find a new reason why you’d want to by a new bulb.

geekworking ,

The LED elements last a lifetime, but the driver transistors burn out as frequently as traditional bulbs

simplejack ,
@simplejack@lemmy.world avatar

My entire house is LEDs. I was a pretty early adopter and I still have the OG Phillips bulbs floating around my house.

In 10 years I’ve only had one bulb crap out. With incandescent bulbs there were always several a year that needed to be swapped. Back in the day I used to have a box of extra bulbs in my closet. I no longer keep that box because it’s just taking up space for something that is almost never touched.

Most articles confirm my experience and show that LEDs have muuuuch longer lifespans.

gedaliyah ,
@gedaliyah@lemmy.world avatar

“This is a premium feature. To unlock the right-click menu, just enjoy this 30 second ad, or click to add to your monthly subscription.”

hedgehogging_the_bed ,

Logitech’s desire to put AI in my IO devices is exactly why I am moving to a different manufacturer. I want solid hardware, not hardware as a service. HP also is trying this with printers and it’s total bullshit.

If I am paying a monthly fee, I’d better not also have to buy garbage hardware. That better be provided for free and replaced when it inevitably fails.

stealth_cookies ,

Logitech pissed me off years ago when they didn’t honour a warranty because I bought a flawed product before they extended the warranty on them.

I have not even been tempted by their products because there are so many other peripheral manufacturers out there that put out great products.

orca ,
@orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts avatar

Not everything has to be a subscription.

Unless you’re a greedy CEO. Then everything should be a subscription!

FartsWithAnAccent ,
@FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io avatar

Fuck that, no thanks! How about you build repairable mice that can last forever instead?

rImITywR ,

With open source firmware. Preferably QMK + VIA.

lemmyng ,
@lemmyng@lemmy.ca avatar

User-serviceable switches would be so nice…

Sabata11792 ,

If I mistake your shit ideas as an Onion article, you should be fired. Who would pay monthly on a mouse?

EvilBit ,

The answer to this is simple. Go private. Get a buyout and delist so you aren’t literally required to permanently and constantly grow your company bigger and sell more than you did last year for the rest of eternity in the name of the almighty shareholders.

Sell great hardware to people who need it, develop a loyal fan base, and treat them right, forever. I guarantee that the rate of valid, reasonable purchases of high-quality, durable new mice and keyboards is more than enough to sustain a very healthy company full of very talented employees forever, as long as they aren’t required to always make more money than ever before.

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