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I am driving a new Mercedes C class and can confirm: the software is utter rubbish. Half of the built-in "Mercedes apps" are crashing, not starting, not working

I am driving a new Mercedes C class and can confirm: the software is utter rubbish. Half of the built-in "Mercedes apps" are crashing, not starting, not working, not connecting. Mercedes Me works - sometimes, sometimes it doesnt. Germans are very bad at software.

ChuckNorris89 7y ago
Automotive software isn't written by Germans anymore, they outsourced most of it to the cheapest OEM over a decade ago. And it's not just the Germans, everything in automotive is cost driven with contracts going to the lowest bidder leading to a race to the bottom and the results speak for themselves as you can see.
- wtf_srsly 7y ago
  This isn't true anymore. With MBUX Mercedes has started developing their infotainment system in-house again. I don't personally own a Mercedes but from what I've heard it's much better then the previously outsourced infotainment system.
- 88840-8855 7y ago
  Please elaborate.
  - ChuckNorris89 7y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21927963 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21927963
- ryanlol 7y ago
  I guess it’s written by non-Germans who speak German then? Awful lot of BMW internals tend to be in German.
netsharc 7y ago
The thing I can't stand on Mercs is their ugly UI, which they've kept even in this day and age: https://c1.peakpx.com/wallpaper/1018/324/929/mercedes-benz-car-amg-gt-transport-wallpaper-preview.jpg https://c1.peakpx.com/wallpaper/1018/324/929/mercedes-benz-c... One time I got in one of their cars in a car show, and the display kept popping up a modal dialog "To use X, please connect a phone". I get it, you told me 5 seconds ago!
- rconti 7y ago
  It's insanely ugly. I rented a cla200d in Germany a couple years back and just assumed it looked chintzy because I had the low-rent cardboard interior rental company model. ... Until I saw the same font and graphics on a $100k+ AMG E class at the auto show being advertised as NEW.

ChuckNorris89 7y ago

Automotive software isn't written by Germans anymore, they outsourced most of it to the cheapest OEM over a decade ago. And it's not just the Germans, everything in automotive is cost driven with contracts going to the lowest bidder leading to a race to the bottom and the results speak for themselves as you can see.

wtf_srsly 7y ago
This isn't true anymore. With MBUX Mercedes has started developing their infotainment system in-house again. I don't personally own a Mercedes but from what I've heard it's much better then the previously outsourced infotainment system.
88840-8855 7y ago
Please elaborate.
- ChuckNorris89 7y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21927963 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21927963
ryanlol 7y ago
I guess it’s written by non-Germans who speak German then? Awful lot of BMW internals tend to be in German.

netsharc 7y ago

The thing I can't stand on Mercs is their ugly UI, which they've kept even in this day and age: https://c1.peakpx.com/wallpaper/1018/324/929/mercedes-benz-car-amg-gt-transport-wallpaper-preview.jpg https://c1.peakpx.com/wallpaper/1018/324/929/mercedes-benz-c... One time I got in one of their cars in a car show, and the display kept popping up a modal dialog "To use X, please connect a phone". I get it, you told me 5 seconds ago!

rconti 7y ago
It's insanely ugly. I rented a cla200d in Germany a couple years back and just assumed it looked chintzy because I had the low-rent cardboard interior rental company model. ... Until I saw the same font and graphics on a $100k+ AMG E class at the auto show being advertised as NEW.