The German car-maker says its "optional power upgrade" is designed to give customers more choice.

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[–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

The real question should be: why are vehicle manufacturers inclusing features that they can't afford to maintain after they have sold it to us? Maybe stop making everything internet-integrated. Nobody in their right mind should be forking over a subscription for something they just spent tens of thousands of dollars on.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    features that they can’t afford to maintain

    That logic might work for GPS service, but the example in the article is a bike where the battery's discharge rate and capacity are limited by software, and those limits can be increased via software if you pay a subscription.

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