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My Mercedes-Benz has software firmware for my transmission that is updated annually, at the shop. The software can be updated over the air in a Tesla every few

My Mercedes-Benz has software firmware for my transmission that is updated annually, at the shop. The software can be updated over the air in a Tesla every few weeks. Mercedes is working with my company to adopt agile practices and server deployment to disposable cloud environments for their connected car IoT applications. Industrial and Appliance manufacturers such as Philips, and GE (a 10% investor) are also adopting this same software and methodology for their IoT platforms and applications. I don't know what else to tell you - there are certainly areas where you correctly point out you need to get it right the first time. But you keep making projections about the future of immutable software that are contradictory to all the evidence. The world is a big place and even in Deutschland the big industrial manufacturers are adopting lean and agile. Cars at Toyota and Honda (and many others) are developed with Lean Product development principles - not a big up front design plan, but test-first, concurrent, iterative, incremental engineering. One can buy hardware that lasts a decade - the software can and will evolve except in constrained environments. A washing machine is not a constrained environment.

kuschku 11y ago
No one is going to update their washing machine. No one. Out of the people I know, most never updated their phone software or the firmware of their consoles. My mum was, until a week ago, running on her PC Windows Vista with the last update being downloaded in 2006, when we moved into this house and I had run Windows Update for her. A washing machine is probably the most constrained environment in any home. No one’s going to update it. When you turn it on, you want it to just work. Same with the smart fridge. These devices have a lifetime of decades, and no one’s going to update them. Same with cars, most people don’t want them to be updated. Remember, this is Deutschland, we still use Fax for business communication.

kuschku 11y ago

No one is going to update their washing machine. No one. Out of the people I know, most never updated their phone software or the firmware of their consoles. My mum was, until a week ago, running on her PC Windows Vista with the last update being downloaded in 2006, when we moved into this house and I had run Windows Update for her. A washing machine is probably the most constrained environment in any home. No one’s going to update it. When you turn it on, you want it to just work. Same with the smart fridge. These devices have a lifetime of decades, and no one’s going to update them. Same with cars, most people don’t want them to be updated. Remember, this is Deutschland, we still use Fax for business communication.