Logitech’s ‘Forever Mouse’ Idea Pulled Back After Backlash
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It was just a few months ago that we had some fun with Logitech over it’s amazing, never been done before AI mouse… that was actually just a rehash of a previous mouse that had a button…
  • ngwoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Was just a dopey idea in the first place. Nobody replaces a mouse because it’s lacking software features, they replace a mouse when the switches wear out.

    • douglasg14b@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Which is planned obsolescence anyways.

      It’s not a dopey idea, it’s an enshitification one, and one we will see again because there are no consequences.

      Logitech will have subscription hardware, guaranteed. They’ll just go back to the drawing board on how to market anti-consumer practices better.

      And similarly are antitrust regulations have done nothing to prevent companies like Logitech from just acquiring all of their competitors and then doing this anyways once there is no more competition. And even using potential competitors into bankruptcy before they can actually compete.

      • Croquette@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        3 months ago

        It’s always the same thing.

        Corpo push dog-shit idea and receives backlash.

        Pull back for a moment, and goes a little bit softer than the last and see if it sticks.If it sticks, it becomes the new standard for every similar corpo.

        Rinse and repeat.

        Just look at when Bethesda tried to sell a horse armor for Skyrim. Now it’s the norm.

  • awiteb@lemmy.4rs.nlEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I hate AI being intrusive in everything, who needs a mouse button to open the AI prompt!

    • dizzy@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      3 months ago

      The most annoying thing was them adding that bullshit to my current mouse’s software without warning.

      Logi AI prompt crap I don’t need or want, that I can’t disable, keeps starting up if I kill the process, eating 5-10% of my CPU cycles.

      Thankfully there was enough backlash to knock that on the head and they now let you disable it but they seriously got caught up with their own hype there.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I have a regular old non-AI Logitech mouse and keyboard, and I’m already enjoying the benefits of. Logitech AI:

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Really? Anything??? Can I assign it to bring me self esteme to see myself as worthy of finding happyness? Or will I just remain the same piece of garbage I was before I bought this stupid mouse?

        Ya know what? I’m just gonna sleep in the dumpster again. Hopefully this time the garbage men don’t notice me, and compact it down.

        • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          I mean probably not worth the risk of messing it up, but you could have an automated IV dispense SSRIs or MDMA and then assign that to a mouse button.

          There’s definitely a less Rube Goldberg way of achieving the same outcome without a mouse at all though

            • SkyNTP@lemmy.mlEnglish
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              3 months ago

              Who the f. has time to manage all these bills, apps, accounts… What’s next, 2FA to sit around for an app to update, so you can sit through a “what’s new” tutorial to unlock a pen just so you can write something down, all for the “convenience” of not having to run out of ink?

              You know what people with money and no time do? They buy 20 dumb pens and then just toss one in the trash when it runs out.

              The intersection between people who have money to burn and patience to deal with tech bullshit is extremely small.

              The parodies write themselves now.

      • Churbleyimyam@lemm.eeEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Or a keyboard shortcut.

        My keyboard cost £10 with a mouse. The keyboard has 104 keys and I would expect it to last at least 5 years. That’s £0.02 per key per year. To be competitive, a subscription model for an AI button needs to be less than £0.00333 per month.

  • frunch@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Why pay for something you won’t be using all the time? Why not just pay for it only when you’re using it? Oh–well yeah, you’ll have to buy it first–but then you’ll only have to pay to use it when you want to use it, and only when you want to use it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    What a fucking breakthrough

      • ipkpjersi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Ooh, then your mouse can stop working when you run out of meters and then you have to buy more to top it up! Excellent.

  • BrightCandle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    The first attempt of many, the tech industry will normalise a subscription model alongside the hardware they just need to find the right justification that doesn’t have universal push back. It worked for games, the trojan horse used was (often token) multiplayer addition and it will work in hardware too once they find the right combination.

  • eee@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 months ago

    at this rate, in 20 years some asshole capitalist will figure out how to monetize air as a subscription service and we’ll all be living in a true dystopia