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I hate that Apple stopped making printers. I think they realised printers are inherently shit, so they stopped trying. Then again, their standards on the iPhone have fallen so far (and while I still like the Mac, and I don't hate Liquid Ass... er, Glass, I think what it did to Finder (our file manager) is absolutely atrocious), they might as well start making printers again.
Also, there's this:
https://www.theverge.com/tech/641940/best-printer-2025-just-buy-a-brother-laser-printer-middle-finger-in-the-air
Note that The Verge recently started paywalling all of its articles. This one appears free. I think there are a few that they don't paywall because they know they get shared on social media. It's still a shit site and source, but I love the snark in this article.
Also note, it's likely you've seen the same article with a better name. It used to be called something like "Stop looking for printers and buy the Brother printer everyone else is buying and stop worrying" or something like that. Guess someone told them it was too snarky. But yeah, $120 laser printer, it costs more than an inkjet but you're not trapped in endless subscriptions until the thing falls apart.
Lastly IMO, HP's subscription service is probably a good deal for home users who rarely print, if it still covers free shipping of new ink and free replacement of the printer itself when it goes out. I have no printer. My Mac mini sits where my printer would go, and it's surrounded by a bunch of anime figures. I've thought about print-by-mail options, but the truth is, I can put something on Proton Drive, download it at work, print on the laser printers there, and carry it home. You're not supposed to but no one really cares, people waste paper and toner left and right. The amount of forms I see with half the page straight up black... like bro, why? Why not just use the line fill in Excel? They say nothing should be written there. Okay so you're gonna use 50 pages' worth of toner on one sheet, but fuck it, company pays for it? Then no, no one cares if I print a three page letter among the 200-400 pages I print a day. ...but anyway, if you need more than a few sheets printed here and there, you should just pony up for a laser printer already, and fuck The Verge, do your own research. They give you the model number. Search that on your ethical search engine (or Google it, IDGAF) and see what other people say about that printer. But I don't have it, so I can only point to what others say.
Apple is like the king of anti consumer design and planned obsolescence why are they the ones you wish still made printers? It'd only print from an Apple computer, only Apple signed PDFs, and then be a paperweight the second the tiniest thing went wrong.
I've been rocking the same Brother printer since 2012. Still going strong!
@cerebralhawks @Deceptichum I can't believe they can have done anything to Finder to make it worse, surely?
Not functionally. The Liquid Glass visuals clash though. Like they raise elements that don't need to be raised. It looked better before. Functionally it's the same (to my use case).