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How has this company managed to survived wall gardening their printers?

Apple got away with it because they started from that position creating a niche for themselves and a "reality distortion field' that sets their products apart (for some people) based on perceived quality.

HP has no such brand recognition, if anything it's products' quality is worse than its competitors' products.

I suspect it's trying to do a Samsung who did the same, but without any advertising or headlining products (which started with Samsung's S3/S4 phones years ago), so their marketing is completely balls-ing up the company's position.



More to the point, why isn’t there an open source printer operating system that fucks off all this malware?

I’ve long wondered if printers ship ‘samples’ of printed documents back to the vendors to ‘allow for an improved customer experience’.




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