BMW saw what EA is doing with microtransactions in games and was like "we need some of that but in our cars" cnet.com/roadshow/news/bmw-v…

Jul 2, 2020 · 5:33 PM UTC

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@SF_Matt thoughts?
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crazy to imagine ongoing payments for your car
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Also Daimler youtube.com/watch?v=wKheIV…
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I’m pretty sure not having the high beams available available 24/7 would fail the state inspection in missouri @BMW
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everything becomes like buying IBM eventually
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I hate the future
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the next logical step in the 'all the hardware is already there, but we didn't put the button in' approach to cars. Car trip computers they do this for constantly.
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Honestly, this seems par for the course for a company like BMW; this is merely an extension of their historic practice of engineering components to fail rather than for reliability, necessitating a rather extreme high-cost maintenance model to ensure consistent revenue flow.
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If it's a service then I get free upgrades and repairs yes?
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The biggest irony is that turn signals WILL come included.
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