Technology

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.

Logitech CEO can fuck right off.

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

And I want whoever came up with this idea to spontaneously combust, but neither of us is going to get what we want.

You know, a subscription-based, AI-enhanced mouse is exactly what I've been looking for. I'm so pumped! And for only $200 upfront plus a monthly subscription? Sign me up!

I hope they'll also make it easy for me to top up my monthly mouse-click credit through an app that just needs to know my precise location and my contacts and be allowed to display itself over other apps for accessibility reasons. Hopefully I can even check my mouse's status remotely through the app too, and adjust the colour of its LEDs to reflect my unique personality.

And maybe they'll even be able to personalize my mousing experience so my mouse can serve me better, by anonymously tracking what I hover over and click on. That'd be fantastic. And if the AI could also use this information to notify me about relevant deals and offers from their trusted partners, that would be the cherry on top.

This is going to be great! Thanks Logitech - I love it!

Welp, looks like I just bought my last Logitech mouse. I've sworn by them for over 20 years.

Nope, fuck you Logitech.

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.

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

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

Don't fuck this up

MaaS?

Oh God if they put AI in the MX Master Mice then I'm boned.

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

I'm curious what monumentally terrible ideas they have for adding machine learning or LLM features to HIDs.

I'll go out of my way to avoid ever owning any of them, but I'm curious.

I don't see the point of this. Why would a mouse need constant software updates? I could plug in a 20 year old mouse and it would work just fine on my PC, no updates needed.

And I don’t want to buy it. Not everything needs to be a subscription.

Meh, I'm going to hold out for a subscription-based AI-enabled mousepad.

The Instant Pot was a product so good that customers rarely needed to buy another one. The company went bankrupt.

Man, we had to replace the fuse on ours four times before we gave up on it; I don't think 'product longevity' was a major factor in the brand's downfall. It also did a shit job of cooking rice.

I also highly doubt Logitech's ability to make a "forever" mouse with how many I've had to RMA due to faulty left click switches. Get your product design, supply chain, and QA in order before you start trying to tie people down with wholly unnecessary and unwanted subscriptions. Shitty ent seeking MBA vampires fucking everything up for everyone.

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.

premium mouse that receives constant updates

Come on. How many firmware updates can we really expect for a mouse?

I've had an m570 for about 10 years. Every time it broke, I fixed it. Why do we need a subscription?