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>I believe it’s usually a heathy practice in life to look for the straightforward explanations that don’t assume bad motives in the part of the actor you are lo
by Qwertious 6y ago
>I believe it’s usually a heathy practice in life to look for the straightforward explanations that don’t assume bad motives in the part of the actor you are looking at.
I hope that you balance it with a healthy skepticism of a publicly traded company's justifications for their profits.
Tesla sells heated seats etc and when you buy it, what you get is a software update enabling the existing hardware - it's artificial scarcity done for business reasons, i.e. their add-ons business plan is built around preventing users from controlling their own hardware. This does not bode well for independent repair.
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoDisabled features don't impact repairability. This is no different than IBM selling mainframes with unlockable processors.
- natch 6y ago> I hope that you balance it with a healthy skepticism Sure. And I have personal experience with service that tells me they aren’t so evil at all. I give the personal experience more weight than internet theories from people who don’t know of what they speak. Not referring to you necessarily but in general there are a lot of highly opinionated people here who have never bothered to acquaint themselves with the actual facts, instead relying on internet rumors or opinions from random people like Linus on Youtube, an expert on, of all things, PC hardware. > Tesla sells heated seats etc and when you buy it, what you get is a software update enabling the existing hardware - it's artificial scarcity That’s just an uninformed opinion. Tesla already explained why they did this, and the reasons were legitimate.
- AYBABTME 6y agoIndependent repair will evolve into opening a terminal on the car and editing config files, firewalls.