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Re:HP's CEO spells it out: You're a 'bad investment' if you ... by Spartan-S63 on Friday January 19, 2024 @03:51PM (#39060963)
Furthermore, if this were a sane analogy, HP would be paying us for the printer hardware and we would be returning the “investment” via paper and ink cartridges/toner.
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Re:HP's CEO spells it out: You're a 'bad investment' if you ... by anamexis on Friday January 19, 2024 @03:53PM (#39060991)
Well, they aren't paying us, but the printers are most likely sold at a loss. So that part holds.
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Re:HP's CEO spells it out: You're a 'bad investment' if you ... by RobRivera on Friday January 19, 2024 @03:57PM (#39061067)
The xbox was sold at a loss, that was an investment.

Convince me they sell those printers at a loss.

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Re:HP's CEO spells it out: You're a 'bad investment' if you ... by vineyardmike on Friday January 19, 2024 @04:23PM (#39061384)
To be fair, Microsoft is also pretty heavy handed that only content which pays a licensing fee to MSFT can be run on the Xbox.
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Re:HP's CEO spells it out: You're a 'bad investment' if you ... by RobRivera on Friday January 19, 2024 @05:57PM (#39062499)
They ensured their investment had low risk
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Re:HP's CEO spells it out: You're a 'bad investment' if you ... by Almondsetat on Friday January 19, 2024 @04:36PM (#39061541)
Sure: find me someone who indeoendently built a printer.

The technology behind them is insane for most of them costing less than $100

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