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Help me find some luxury (strange) product have rrazor and blade business model ? The more funny and controversy the better. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 day ago by letme_meowmeow@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Me go first:

Most printer: we all know ...
Keurig: a coffee pod machine that use one-time pod. They once refuse to use third party pod with a chip.
Juicero: a luxury juicer that squeeze juice from repack pod (which you can squeeze by hand). The machine will only work with pre-pack pod. You cannot make the machine work with your own food or vegetable.

You know any ? Any product, startup, dead or alive.

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[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

You mean items that should be generic commodities, but which companies customize in order to lock you into their ecosystem, or otherwise restrict what you can do? Like printer ink cartridges or Keurig pods with ID chips, as you mentioned.

DVD region codes
Camera lenses back in the manual SLR days. I don't think there's any reason old manual-focus Nikon/Olympus/Pentax/etc. lenses needed to be brand-exclusive. The companies could have all used the same bayonet mount and all lenses would be interchangeable.