The other day, in Ireland, in our innovation center there, one of our team members showed me a forever mouse with the comparison to a watch. This is a nice watch, not a super expensive watch, but I’m not planning to throw that watch away ever. So why would I be throwing my mouse or my keyboard away if it’s a fantastic-quality, well-designed, software-enabled mouse. The forever mouse is one of the things that we’d like to get to.

What made the mouse a forever mouse?

It was a little heavier, it had great software and services that you’d constantly update, and it was beautiful. So I don’t think we’re necessarily super far away from that.

I’m still stuck on, “You’re going to sell me a mouse once and it’s going to have ongoing software updates forever.”

Imagine it’s like your Rolex. You’re going to really love that.

I’m going to ask this very directly. Can you envision a subscription mouse?

Possibly.

And that would be the forever mouse?

Yeah.

So you pay a subscription for software updates to your mouse.

Yeah, and you never have to worry about it again, which is not unlike our video conferencing services today.

But it’s a mouse.

But it’s a mouse, yeah.

I think consumers might perceive those to be very different.

[Laughs] Yes, but it’s gorgeous. Think about it like a diamond-encrusted mouse.

The forever mouse, and the forever mouse could be the mouse that you keep and we just send you software updates, but it could also be the mouse that you turn in at Best Buy and we get it back or Best Buy takes it back and refurbs and resells it, which is another business model. We’re starting to do that but not yet at the scale that we need to.

These fucking parasites want a subscription for a mouse

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Wait. So now I have to pay a subscription for my mouse?! So it’s a forever mouse I forever have to make payments to?

This is the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard of.

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This might be good, actually. If they are just charging for driver and hardware client upgrades, you can just use a generic or open source driver.

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yeah, i cracked my computer mouse to run a homebrew FW so I can use the open source drivers.

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Forever mouse

Oh nice, a mouse I pay for once and will keep using forever?

I pay once?

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What made the mouse a forever mouse?

It was a little heavier, it had great software and services that you’d constantly update,

Lol lmao. I am still using my Trackman Marble from 2009 or whatever.

Who is standing outside of my house and screaming “UPDATE YOUR MOUSE”? Show yourself coward. I will never update a mouse.

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