Upon closer analysis, all analogies will break down. I don't know if this has happened, but e.g. BMW will sell you different types of maps to load into your ca

Upon closer analysis, all analogies will break down. I don't know if this has happened, but e.g. BMW will sell you different types of maps to load into your car navigation. What you paid for is centrally licensed through authorized dealers. Let's say a technician loaded a more recent map of Europe than the one you bought by mistake. Now you your navigation computer breaks, and you have it replaced by another technician at another authorized service center. They load the map they had on record for you into the new car nav computer, which to you is the "older" version, but the "newer" one was never one you had a license for. I'm pretty sure things like this have been happening for at least a couple of decades with some manufacturers, it's just that the "features" have become more major as more things are software-driven, in this case the battery capacity.