Aha -- the other shoe drops for freemium models. Reversing your 'natural' cost model to boost sales (printer costs more to make so should cost more to sell) sta

Aha -- the other shoe drops for freemium models. Reversing your 'natural' cost model to boost sales (printer costs more to make so should cost more to sell) starts an arms race with the consumer and rival ink-makers. The printers rejecting alien print cartridges reminds me of brood parasitism with birds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brood_parasite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brood_parasite. Birds who co-evolve in environments where this is a problem develop defenses.