"Forever mouse"

"Supported by paid subscription service"

Forever mouse

Oh nice, a mouse I pay for once and will keep using forever?

I pay once?

Why the hell does a mouse need software updates? It points and it clicks. That's it. No need to make it any more complex.

Imagine it's like your Rolex, the CEO says to the journalist who probably makes like 70k/year if they're lucky

Rent seeking shit. Capitalists are the fucking worst.

Some of those old Logitech mice basically do last forever.

Moving away from planned obsolescence by making everything a subscription model instead is so comically capitalism-brained.

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

Yeah, and you never have to worry about it again

fundamentally not now subscriptions work. in fact, exactly the opposite.

Wait. So now I have to pay a subscription for my mouse?! So it's a forever mouse I forever have to make payments to?

This is the dumbest shit I've ever heard of.

fucking vampires. are they also gonna bill you for each click?

Think about it like a diamond-encrusted mouse.

but it's not going to be diamond-encrusted, is it? it's going to be another thing with which to spy on you. i don't know if anyone's falling for the subscription = premium bs anymore, no matter how fancy it might look like. besides, you get a mouse for its functionality. there's stuff like programmable lights & ofc the brand name itself adds to the cost. but like, you can just get a cheap, basic mouse if that's all you need.

i hope i'm making sense here. shit like this makes me irrationally angry.

These fucking parasites want a subscription for a mouse

subscription

never have to worry about it again

I don't think it works like that

Imagine it’s like your Rolex

The rage when I read this, gonna go

So it's not even a mouse designed to last forever, but a mouse leasing program with free replacements.

Or, when your old mouse breaks, order a replacement, put the broken one in the box and return it. Free replacements for as long as they keep making that mouse

We give you one mouse, you pay us for 50.

like. i've never had a mouse break, or had to pay for software updates. because a mouse doesn't fucking need software updates.

stop acting like you invented something other than a new scheme for extracting money from your victims. assholes.

"Always online" as a requirement for your fucking mouse to work.

This might be good, actually. If they are just charging for driver and hardware client upgrades, you can just use a generic or open source driver.

My mouse already lasts forever and it doesn't have a subscription service.

I have a Logitech Trackman Wheel from circa 2004, and it works just fine, thank you.

At work I have the wireless equivalent from around 2015? It works fine, too, but isn't better than the old one in any way, plus you have to worry about pairing the dongle and replacing the battery.

Do Rolexes have a software subscription now? I'm not very dripped out this isn't my area of expertise, and this woman sounds pretty "out there"

Scrolled through the interview because I couldn’t believe these quotes were real. From the parts I skimmed this woman seems comically vapid, speaking mostly in buzzwords. Though she is talking to a journalist, maybe she just knows she can’t say what she really thinks about Logitech.

Best part I saw, right before the bits about the rent-a-mouse, was when the interviewer offhandedly mentioned smart homes. And she said (paraphrasing) “those are discontinued.” So the interviewer asks what people who bought smart homes will do and she answers:

We’ll continue to support, of course, what we’ve sold for some time.

Which we can agree is probably a blatant lie unless smart home owners would have grounds to sue. And then almost immediately after that they start talking about her new forever mouse.

Can there just please be foss linux software for controlling the lighting that works well please. Solaar doesnt detect my g203 for some reason

Bro Logitech couldn't even pay me to use their crappy mouse software. I remap my shit using a different software and never touch ghub at all.

Unless they enforce the hardware to connect to the internet and verify an active subscription i dont see how they'll get anyone to pay for this

cool idea dude but i think what I'm going to go ahead and do is just buy a new one and return your planned obsolent trash back to you in the same box

Are you ready for subscription level replacement parts?

It would be a shame if your scrollwheel would die every 3 months and be a $30 replacement before $10 shipping.

Replacement buttons every year or so...

They want your business forever. They can't do that for free, they need you to keep paying them regularly.

"To re-enable two-button mouse mode and disable this reminder screen, please update your payment information."

watch this space for standard hid protocol shenanigans

I've been using a g502 for over 10 years. The braided cord is completely fucked and the material over the plastic on the bottom is all gone but it still works great