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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.
CEO : No, not that kind of forever
It will be much cheaper for the company to replace rather than repair, then they don't have to pay technicians