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Analogues of this have been playing out in other industries for some time. The legal incentives strongly bias the outcomes toward it not being possible to own t
by jandrewrogers 2y ago
Analogues of this have been playing out in other industries for some time. The legal incentives strongly bias the outcomes toward it not being possible to own these products, only rent them. At a visceral level I don’t like it but at an intellectual level I understand why it is the only plausible way forward. There is no easy solution.
In automotive, it is common for there to be a requirement that software is supported to some degree for 7-15 years. In practice, this is extremely expensive to guarantee but no one wants to pay for the cost of a reliable guarantee. The industry is at an impasse with consumers and it manifests in situations like this article.
- pas 2y agoI like renting cars, I hate to take them for some godforsaken garage to fix some issue with it. Sure, there's a premium, and so on, but similarly I hate looking for an overnight parking space, if I can simply hand it over to someone who takes/needs it for the night (going around selling drugs or going to fill it up and clean it, or all of the above) all the better. with onboard telemetry and ubiquitous HD image recording ability it's pretty easy to make a few shots to have some evidence of good and careful handling, and giving it to the next user in a known condition. of course if time and space are at a relative abundance then owning might make perfect sense, or if someone uses it so much that handover costs would start to be significant. 7-15 years is nothing for firmware. the hardware is fixed, requirements are also basically fixed. no need to support new codes, new protocols, etc.