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Logitech wants to sell you a subscription mouse some day

Logitech hopes to make a single mouse you’ll buy and use forever, but to then stay alive as a company, it will need to somehow charge you a subscription. For a mouse.

Black Logitech keyboard with numeric keypad, and gray Logitech mouse on top of a colorful mouse pad.
No one’s mentioned a Forever Keyboard yet.

Especially coming after Logitech launched a whole range of new Mac mice, trackpads, and keyboards, it’s very easy to be reminded just how many of these peripherals we get through. It’s very easy to see that as an ecological problem, and especially for a firm that is reportedly now aiming to both double its business and cut its carbon footprint in half.

It’s just harder to imagine what a mouse subscription would get you, beyond the mouse. Logitech isn’t thinking along the lines of Apple’s iPhone update program where you would get a new mouse annually, it very definitely thinks that you should get what it’s calling a forever mouse.

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