Re:Forced to sell chipless ink cartridges, Canon tells custo...
by YPPH on Sunday January 09, 2022 @10:14AM
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That's why I qualified it with at least as the narrative goes. It's an assumption in favour of the manufacturer.
It's even worse if it's not true.
If it's not true, they are selling their DRM-protected product at cost price + margin and double dipping by selling exorbitantly priced cartridges.
If you pulled that off in any other context - hey the only reason we can produce a $6 sandwich toaster on the shelf in any big store is by committing customers to use our premium toasting bread - you’d be a genius of marketing.
I guess I’m just struggling with the idea that large (and therefore historically quite risk averse) companies would choose to enter such competition with peers (sell printers at less than cost) given the very obvious risk that someone else will make premium toaster bread / ink. It’s a hell of a gamble in an established firm.