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artificial limitations create a user-hostile businesses
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manufacturers can impose artificial limitations on their products; for example:
HIP bricking customers’ printers if they stop paying for the “instant ink” program.
tesla pushing an update to temporarily increase battery life during natural disasters – meaning the physical battery of these cars could have increased capacity, but software restricts it to create different price points.
this is user-hostile; it’s antithetical to the convenience promised by products that are connected to the internet. you can’t use these products the way you want to.
perpetual digital subscriptions are artificially limiting access; do you own anything?