• @[email protected]
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    24 hours ago

    It’s HP.

    You know, the same company that makes the worlds most insufferable printers. So yeah, it was deliberate, intentionally making the user experience as awful as humanly possible might as well be their raison d’etre.

    • FuglyDuck
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      322 hours ago

      the thing is, if it’s slow and they have to let you wait 15 minutes, that’s… ineffeciency. Like. it might not always stay slow. if someone wants to talk to a human, and there’s a human free, it’s bad business to make them go through all the other hoops first.

      • @[email protected]
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        818 hours ago

        This is the same company that sells an entire printer at a loss, as a semi-disposable item, so you’ll be suckered into buying their proprietary ink cartridges at the low low price of an arm and a dick. Inefficiency? From the company that makes disposable fucking printers? yeah that sounds about right.

        and yes, it is bad business, but there are many things that HP does that are “bad business”, and yet they continue to exist like a cancer on the consumer computer hardware market. Again, this is normal for them.

        • FuglyDuck
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          14 hours ago

          This is the same company that sells an entire printer at a loss, as a semi-disposable item, so you’ll be suckered into buying their proprietary ink cartridges at the low low price of an arm and a dick. Inefficiency? From the company that makes disposable fucking printers? yeah that sounds about right.

          small point of fact… they’re no longer loss leaders. They’re making a profit on the printer too, now. they only did that to push out other brands in the space- they’re at 20+% global market share… and that’s just HP branded printers. they own some other junky brands.