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Logitech CEO Wants to Sell You a Subscription-Based 'Forever Mouse' (gizmodo.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Magnesium mouse

Forever subscription

Hard to decide here, fellas. Idk.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Faber states that “[It] was a little heavier, it had great software and services that you’d constantly update, and it was beautiful.”

Updates!

[–] Sendpicsofsandwiches 4 points 3 months ago

More like the never mouse, you can keep the monthly sub peripherals.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Logitech stuff is already sort of a subscription based service, since their stuff is designed to fail after around 2 years.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

Don't fuck this up

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

MaaS?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

There's one way subscription-based hardware might be a good idea: it would motivate the companies to focus on quality and repairability, because they would be the ones who have to deal with that stuff. Unless of course if the EULA of such hardware is complete shit. Which of course it will be.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

It will be much cheaper for the company to replace rather than repair, then they don't have to pay technicians

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I use a computer a lot, and I have an expensive keyboard and mouse. I'm the target market in a sense; if there was a compelling enough upgrade to either, I'd probably buy it.

I can't imagine what software features they could possibly offer that would qualify, doubly so as a subscription. I picked my mouse because it has lots of buttons, a responsive sensor, low-latency wireless, and it runs on a standardized replaceable battery. It would be hard to improve any of that with software.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

given how much is going on in the diy / open source keyboard community, I'm sure there's going to be some options

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Try getting them to last longer than 2 years before the scroll wheel breaks before you try to stump this shit

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