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This is not about you, but about them. It's not that you need a subscription. It's that they need you to have a subscription.
But they need to convince me that the subscription is worthwhile!
Not if they and their competitors remove all the other options.
Nah. There will always be companies just selling a mouse.
You wouldn't print a mouse.
Are they bluetooth?
Hell yeah!
They'll remove any mice from the market that doesn't have a subscription model and others will follow suit.
Future mouse DLC: "Special promotion! $5 discount on unlocking right mouse button!"
Good luck with removing aliexpress mice from the market
I doubt the open source options will be adopting this strategy either.
I have a ploopy trackball and love it.
If they only had a thumb trackball...
Like this?
Dang phone, not sure how I missed it. Thanks! Although oof on the price... Another poster mentioned elecom, they have a quite the variety of thumb trackballs, think I'll buy few of those for the price of one ploopy: https://elecomusa.com/collections/trackball Edit:spelling
True, they are expensive. But it's one of the very few left-handed, ergonomic mice/trackballs I've ever found.
How does it compare to the m570?
I use a left handed one, so I can't really comment on most ergonomic computer accessories.
They look nice, but quite expensive.
Damn, I never thought to look there! Thanks!
If you are going to ask questions maybe you are not the target demographic.
Damned straight! I'll stick with my boring old non-ai grandpa mouse.
Back in my day the mice had a tail, no scroll wheel, and only 2 buttons!
We used trackballs and loved them. We greased the mechanism with our forehead sweat as was the fashion at the time.
Back in my day, mice had balls.
When I were a lad, we used vi.