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This model is perfectly good. However, the laws are still outdated with respect to it. Here are simple proposals: - hp (or Apple) can sign you up for this, but
by veselin 7y ago
This model is perfectly good. However, the laws are still outdated with respect to it. Here are simple proposals:
- hp (or Apple) can sign you up for this, but then they cannot call it "buy" in the shop. Rent an iPhone (Android phone) or install a printer may be what it should be.
- they need to inform you about the price. In EU a shop cannot write prices without VAT. Install for X EUR + Y EUR per month is what should be on the sticker.
- finally, there is the antitrust. If somebody tries to replace Y with ads, this must be legally part of the price. Higher price for consumers is what makes a good reason to split a monopoly.
- estebarb 7y agoPlease, don't tell HP Inc employees that they are going to pass through another split.
- TazeTSchnitzel 7y agoYou're not renting the printer, you actually buy it. The subscription rental service is for the cartridges, and you always have the option of buying regular non-rental cartridges instead of using the subscription.
- samatman 7y agoIs there in fact an Apple program that amounts to renting? I'm only aware of the iPhone upgrade program, where you pay monthly and can get a new phone once a year after turning your old one in. But if you pay for two years, the phone is yours, outright. I'm a buy-with-cash kind of guy, but the above isn't rental and shouldn't be described as such. It's a payment plan with some incentives designed to keep iPhone sales up.