As reported by The Reg, HP chief financial officer Marie Myers was talking to investors at the UBS Global Technology conference about the tech giant's subscription model.

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    • mriormro@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
      18·
      2 years ago

      Consumer protection from predatory practices is literally “government business”.

    • eric@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      What a horribly naive and flawed perspective.

      “If people aren’t smart enough to avoid murderers and not get murdered, I can’t help them, and it ain’t the government’s business to stop murders.”

      • You probably
    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]English
      3·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, gambling, then lootboxes demonstrated citizens need to be protected from dark patterns. And their use by government officials (say by the George W. Bush administration) should be felonious.