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Jacob Fox

Logitech's 'forever mouse' could mean peripherals go the way of coffee beans, TVs, and printer ink by pushing a subscription

Logitech G Pro X Superlight 2 gaming mouse.

One thing that's increasingly played on my mind over the last few years is the fact that more and more things seem to be turning into services rather than products. Cloud and server tech has long since brought about the dominance of software as a service (SaaS), and it now looks like our beloved peripherals could be heading in the direction of other subscription products such as coffee beans, TVs, and printer ink.

Hanneke Faber, Logitech's CEO since October 2023, recently told The Verge that the "forever mouse is one of the things that we'd like to get to." If we had any doubts (and thanks to some straightforward questioning by The Verge Editor-in-Chief Nilay Patel), Faber says she can "possibly" envision that this "forever mouse" would be a subscription mouse.

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