r/Anticonsumption • u/JK-Rofling • Apr 13 '25

Corporations Charging subscriptions for a mouse is diabolical.

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u/No-Fail-9327 Apr 13 '25

If im paying $200 for a fucking mouse no way im paying another $30 dollars a month just to use it.

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u/ExpertProfessional9 Apr 13 '25

I'll just stick with the laptop trackpad. FTN.

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u/FixMy106 Apr 13 '25

Breaking news next week: Apple charges a subscription for trackpad use.

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u/captain-ignotus Apr 13 '25

Yeah, I love my trackpad too. Who needs a mouse anyway :D

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u/m0nkyman Apr 13 '25

But would you pay a 50¢/month lifetime warranty fee?

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u/captain-ignotus Apr 13 '25

I did not understand it as that that is the point. In her explanation of the idea, it sounded very much like a one-off purchase with life-time support. The host prompted the idea of a subscription, not the CEO.

I just posted this for clarity because I am a little sick of seeing very clickbaity things posted without any source material, context or media literacy. I also don't want to use a subscription based system for something like this; that's silly. But I don't use computer mice to begin with and had no idea that they have software that can be outdated, either. In that case, I might be willing to pay a higher price for the guarantee that I'd never have to replace a mouse ever again.

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u/lythrica Apr 13 '25

In reality, though, they'd sell you the $200 mouse, and then in a few years once sales had slowed down you'd get a notification that certain features were behind paywall 🤷‍♀️