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Re:HP rolled out update blocking 3rd party ink cartridges by AuthorizedCust on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @07:20AM (#35068132)
Unlikely. I see this frequently, where niche vendors charge a lot for discontinued products.
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Re:HP rolled out update blocking 3rd party ink cartridges by account42 on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @08:13AM (#35068571)
Perhaps demand for discontinued products is not uncommon.

It can have other reasons than the old products being bad (e.g. I recently bought two copies of a discontinued mosue at higher-than-MSRP prices because switching to a different model costs me in time to get used to it) but I wouldn't discount it as a major factor. A lot of products really have gotten shittier replacements.

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Re:HP rolled out update blocking 3rd party ink cartridges by AuthorizedCust on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @08:53AM (#35068962)
> A lot of products really have gotten shittier replacements.

A perpetual pattern in humanity is this refrain coming from old people. :-) You can find examples of it from centuries ago.

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Re:HP rolled out update blocking 3rd party ink cartridges by account42 on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @09:08AM (#35069103)
A lazy response in online discussions is this idea that "old man yells at clouds" is somehow an argument for how things have not gotten worse. We are in a thread discussing an instance where a company is making their product worse FFS.
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Re:HP rolled out update blocking 3rd party ink cartridges by AuthorizedCust on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @07:33PM (#35076775)
It is reducing the value of something merely to one attribute.
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