Companies pivoting to rent seeking is an awful trend.
Companies are an awful trend.
The fine print is worse. If you cancel, you owe a fee equal to the rental price for the remainder of the year.
so at this point just buy the damn computer is what i’m taking from this
$85 a month for a mediocre laptop that I’m probably not allowed to modify in any way? Yeah, nah.
Nothing says trustworthy like half a kilometre of disclaimers
This is the start of corporations trying to completely phase out owning your own hardware.
This needs to fail hard or it will spread to every other major vendor. But in this timeline every evil deed seems to succeed and be rewarded. Be sure to hoard your old hardware, you’ll likely need it later.
This is the start of corporations trying to completely phase out owning your own hardware.
No, this is just a company that is trying to rename the old leasing concept.
This needs to fail hard or it will spread to every other major vendor. But in this timeline every evil deed seems to succeed and be rewarded. Be sure to hoard your old hardware, you’ll likely need it later.
In the enterprise world this is already a thing, companies already lease many devices (pc, laptop, copy machines, cars, phones etc), it not seems to be that much different.
In the private world, if you have the option to keep the laptop at the end the the rent period, you basically paid for the laptop in instalments, which again it nothing really new, it is already used for phones.
In my opinion the only real big problem is if they stop selling the laptop and only allow you to rent them
Fuck HP and everything they sell
Add this to the post of reasons I stopped buying and selling HP.
Bleak.
Ever since my first HP laptop – before I knew any better – I have despised HP and every product of theirs I’ve ever had to use. Consumer laptops full of bloatware. Online knowledge bases poorly designed. Printers full of bugs. Gah, they’re just the worst.
They’ve exploited consumers to the point that they can’t even afford basic needs, but no worries, they’ll rent them back to you indefinitely.
The Epstein class of billionaires demand that all serfs enter subscription for living, if you do not comply your taxes will find someone willing to enforce it. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.
This sounds like leasing renamed. Not unusual in the enterprise space.
These also come with a 5G subscription. Not saying it justifies the price, and I don’t know what that would cost separately. But some of these prices are less than the cost of an ISP plan.
It’s a slippery slope. They get you with the cheap 5g, normalize laptop subscriptions, then in 10 years you’re renting hardware and it’s considered normal.
I really wonder who would (basically) rent a laptop. You can get used ones so cheap.
*This does not seem aimed at business.
My employer leases our computers for 3-5 years. I get a new model when my lease runs out. I don’t really mind the guaranteed refresh except having to move all my stuff over. I would be way more pissed if they moved to BYOD.
