Tesla wasn't the first. I don't know who was but I know the differences in many printers are software only. The differences in many GPUs (Nvidia Quadro vs non-Q

Tesla wasn't the first. I don't know who was but I know the differences in many printers are software only. The differences in many GPUs (Nvidia Quadro vs non-Quadro) are just drivers. I don't know where to draw the line. I hated that Tesla has a (pay $2k for a software upgrade for acceleration). Imagine it will escalate. Pay $1k to get your air-conditioner to 60f otherwise it stops at 68f. Pay $3k to turn 15 degrees sharper. Pay $1.5k for your defrosters to work twice as fast. On the other hand, my phones, computers, and game machines, all came with no software and I pay for apps and Apple in particular has made it popular to pay for individual features inside an app. Download a photo editing app and it will be $2 for the blur feature, $2 for the tilt-shift feature, or $10 for all features... though now it's escalated to $XX per year on most iOS apps that have top end features. I don't know how to feel about it. I used to pay ~$50 a year for photoshop (upgrading every other version for $200). Now I pay $120 a year. I mean, I like the idea of paying once but the truth is, for software I actually used, I'd pay for upgrades, even if only to get the software working on the latest OS version.