> The difference is that cars are a extremely competitive market, and the "no connected" version will always be offered. Are they? Cars are an extremely diffic

> The difference is that cars are a extremely competitive market, and the "no connected" version will always be offered. Are they? Cars are an extremely difficult market to break into, much more so than laptops/etc. All mainstream manufacturers are already on the way to do the whole "connected" thing (the hardware has been there for a decade, it's just a matter of software) and the vast majority of people don't seem to mind. Starting a car manufacturer is already a huge expense, even more so if your only customer base is the small percentage of the population who understands the downsides of connected cars. More likely we'll see reverse-engineered aftermarket replacement controllers that behave just like the original but don't have any connected/DRM crap in them - that market is much easier to break into and you may not even need to make any hardware - just refurbish & reflash the original ones.