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Well, they really did need a massive amount of corpo speak to rephrase: > From now on, we will force you to buy subscriptions for hardware you already bought a
by the_duke 4y ago
Well, they really did need a massive amount of corpo speak to rephrase:
> From now on, we will force you to buy subscriptions for hardware you already bought and is already sitting in your data center, because $$$
- kimixa 4y agoOr the other way, "Features that were previously fused off due to market differentiation but the same die otherwise can now be accessed without throwing away the current product and re-buying different SKUs (e.g. server/workstation Xeon chips)" How "Acceptable" this is really depends on what features are going to be behind this paywall.
- Pet_Ant 4y ago> for hardware you already bought Is it really? If it's not retroactive, and you knew it going in and perhaps got a discount for it at purchase time is it really "you already brought". It's more like instead of destructively fusing off capabilities of functional products (ie irrecoverably ruining perfectly good hardware to enforce market segmentation), they make it easy to upgrade later. This isn't really that bad an idea. As long as I can buy it fully unlocked from the get-go and am never forced into a subscription (as opposed to one-off) on my home workstation I really don't mind.
- the_duke 4y agoIt doesn't change my mind, but this is a valid counter argument and you shouldn't be downvoted.