Logitech CEO lays out the potential future of the mouse and keyboard. Logitech is working on a forever mouse that has a subscription-based model.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18112704

During a recent episode of The Verge’s Decoder podcast, Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber shed some possible insight into the company’s view on one of its most important products. Saying that “the mouse built this house,” Faber shares the planning behind a Forever Mouse, a premium product that the company hopes will be the last you ever have to buy. There’s also a discussion about a subscription-based service and a deeper focus on AI.

For now, details on a Forever Mouse are thin, but you better believe there will be a catch. The Instant Pot was a product so good that customers rarely needed to buy another one. The company went bankrupt.

  • MudMan@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    This is ambiguously written, and I don’t have the bandwidth to go listening to full interviews on mice, of all things. But from the quotes it seems like the idea is selling you a mouse that is very expensive but built for durability. The “we can update the software for more AI” sutff seems separate.

    But hey, who knows? Logitech insists on having an update with game profiles every time I boot my PC just because I use one of their mice. The future got very dumb and it’s not getting any less dumb.

    • leisesprecher@feddit.orgEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Let’s be honest here, the HID business has absolutely no innovation in the near future. There’s nothing they could meaningfully improve, so the need to either release marketing driven products or pull you into a subscription.

      • MudMan@fedia.io
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        3 months ago

        Hah. Are you kidding me? There are people out there spending hundreds of dollars on DIY keyboards and fancy keycaps. Microsoft started selling $200 console controllers and now it’s a whole market segment.

        She has the right idea with making unreasonably expensive mice, she just hasn’t realized the Linus Tech Tips fanbase can be tricked into buying one of those every six months with enough influencer lubrication, so she has no need for a subscription model.

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    The last 3 Logitech products that I have ever bought, 2 mice and 1 keyboard, all started having switch problems that made them unusable within 3 years of buying them. They were all designed so they couldn’t be repaired.

    Logitech is dead to me.