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> I hope people promptly come up with ways to enable these features for free. This is nothing short of criminal. To charge for a feature that is physically in t

by deng 4y ago

> I hope people promptly come up with ways to enable these features for free. This is nothing short of criminal. To charge for a feature that is physically in the car. This is very common. It is often cheaper to have a single SKU and enable/disable features via software than to create a separate one. I don't see what could be criminal about that.

Reubachi 4y ago
It is common in industry that use SAAS, modular systems, etc. Not with purely physical goods. I'm surprised practices like these have legal legs. No reasonable finance statement/legal statement will stand behind a $3.5k line item under manufacturing for a robot to flip a switch to enable a software setting on already installed hardware. Example w/ non-real numbers: BMW x5 with front facing radar, dealer enabled, cost of goods sold = $31,000. MSRP = $60k. BMW x5 with front facing radar installed, dealer disabled, cogs =$31,000.MSRP= $56.5k. This is not healthy for a company to rely on.