<story><title>HP CEO Makes Up a Whole Lot of Bullshit to Defend Crippling Printers</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/29/hp-ceo-makes-up-a-whole-lot-of-bullshit-to-defend-crippling-printers-that-use-cheaper-ink/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wheybags</author><text>&amp;gt; every time a customer buys a printer, it’s an investment for us. We’re investing [in] that customer, and if this customer doesn’t print enough or doesn’t use our supplies, it’s a bad investment&lt;p&gt;This is the problem. If they stopped trying to loss lead the printers, and just sold them for a healthy margin above cost of production, this whole issue would go away.</text></comment>
<story><title>HP CEO Makes Up a Whole Lot of Bullshit to Defend Crippling Printers</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/29/hp-ceo-makes-up-a-whole-lot-of-bullshit-to-defend-crippling-printers-that-use-cheaper-ink/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jerbear4328</author><text>&amp;gt; Last Thursday, HP CEO Enrique Lores addressed the company’s controversial practice of bricking printers when users load them with third-party ink. Speaking to CNBC Television, he said, &amp;quot;We have seen that you can embed viruses in the cartridges. Through the cartridge, [the virus can] go to the printer, [and then] from the printer, go to the network.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t stop laughing. He can&amp;#x27;t be serious? If this was true, it would HP&amp;#x27;s fault for putting a chip in the cartridges in the first place! A cartridge should just be a container of ink, there shouldn&amp;#x27;t be a place to put a virus.</text></comment>