Why You Can't Buy A Car Or Get It Fixed On The 20th Of June
Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2024 7:34 pm
Word on the streets was that on the new BMWs you had to pay monthly for heated seats. People rebelled. Not sure what became of that.
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Be careful what you wish for. Features that can be enabled can also be disabled. And, worst of all, they can become subscription features. Don't pay for a month, all of a sudden your heated seats no longer work.bill_g wrote: ↑Sat Jun 22, 2024 7:31 pm I'm waiting for cars to catch up with other equipment.
For the last two decades increasingly telecom and networking equipment mfgs built a single form factor with all the hardware, jacks, ports, buttons, etc. You bought the base model, and enabled the features / functions you wanted through purchased non-transferable entitlements. You either connected the device to the internet so the OEM could do it remotely, or they sent you an email with long strings of characters you C&P'd into the appropriate fields of the device configuration GUI. It lowered OEM costs because they only had to build one or two product families. It also enhanced the customer experience too. An upgrade could be purchased in the future as the need arose.
IBM (and probably other computer companies) had a variation on that in the 1970s: the processor board of a mainframe would be "slugged" so it ran at some fraction of its maximum speed. Business increases, you need a more powerful company? – pay IBM a bucketful of dollars and the technician comes along, opens the cabinet, moves or removes a jumper and pow! a faster processor! Perhaps he also changed some stickers, I dunno, before my time.bill_g wrote: ↑Sat Jun 22, 2024 7:31 pm I'm waiting for cars to catch up with other equipment.
For the last two decades increasingly telecom and networking equipment mfgs built a single form factor with all the hardware, jacks, ports, buttons, etc. You bought the base model, and enabled the features / functions you wanted through purchased non-transferable entitlements.