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Originally Posted by TheMidnightNarwhal
You know what frustrates me the most about this? Used cars. Now they can build a almost forced money stream with someone who wants to have all the features that came with the car when they buy it used. Fucking scandalous.
Thankfully I'll still have some car choices without this subscription once my 335is runs it's course.
But then this brings future problems? You know how my car navigation has the option to have this nice traffic live updates and SOS button but nope doesn't work because the antenna on the car is to old for current cell towers. I think it's like 1G or 2G. So what's gonna happen when the car is to old to communicate with the servers? Unless from now, all future antennas will be backwards compatible but I still think they will eventually won't be. All services will become disabled? Or all services will all be unlocked?
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If that's their plan I suspect this stuff will come back to bite them pretty well. Since the hardware is in place you'll see hacks pushed out to unlock these features without paying.
A person under warranty might not do them, but once the warranty is up and it is being sold used I see this being a serious damper to their planned revenue streams.
One thing is for certain... If this becomes their new trend then my first BMW that I have on order will be my last BMW. I am not renting my cars features.