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>This is a problem in itself, but is exacerbated by overcharging for replacement parts, and by lack of free-software support to hack around such issues. These

>This is a problem in itself, but is exacerbated by overcharging for replacement parts, and by lack of free-software support to hack around such issues. These things feel like they'll be market-sorted in the future. Computers become cheaper, we know that. Software does too, as it becomes tried and tests and its marginal cost drops, or it moves to open source. We are still so early in the EV revolution. I know lots of people with lots of cars, and only a handful have EVs.

southerntofu 4y ago
> These things feel like they'll be market-sorted in the future. I've heard this argument in so many fields, but never seen it play out. Housing was supposed to be market-sorted, yet there are still millions of empty dwellings outnumbering by far homeless people. In a field that's closer to HN fields of interest, i've heard the very same argument about FLOSS on smartphones. There certainly were some progress in Android land with the mandatory device trees, and on niche products like Librem/Pinephone, but there were also major regressions with for example iCloud/Knox locking becoming a pain for second-hand hardware. Overall, i don't trust an industry whose greedy interest is to keep us buying more to regulate itself to provide better services for existing products.
throwaway0a5e 4y ago
>These things feel like they'll be market-sorted in the future Only for people who own something prolific enough for it to be worth the aftermarket's while to support. Look at the state of tuning for first and early 2nd gen fuel injection systems. It's basically trash unless you own one of a few supported platforms