WaveOct 7, 2024
To answer this anon's question, we got here due to unchecked American capitalism, a lack of consumer rights protections, and lobbying. Large corporations made the everyday person used to low price tag items, and introduced the subscription model to add new features or updates to things you either already owned or wanted to own. The difference going into the 2020s and onwards is that they are revoking your ownership, and the average consumer DOES NOT KNOW THIS. It has been purposefully been hidden from them that they do not actually OWN anything they are paying for. You are buying a LICENSE TO USE THEIR PRODUCT! The only way back now is to educate not only yourself, but your friends and families as well that are not aware of these practices. I have conversations frequently with people about the behavior and most people aren't even aware its happening! Make people aware that their ownership is being stripped from them! Research the current alternatives that you're able to take advantage of, and recommend those to your friends/family. We will only have alternatives for so long before they're choked out of the market for not being profitable enough. We can already see this in the Automotive industry and Printing industry. Your only options to own your hardware with these devices now is to buy used, or pray you find something with a halfway decent EULA. Spread awareness for the takeover of ownership! We dont need to live being milked for subscriptions and poorly designed products! We can stop it if the masses are educated before its too late.

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Show threadDoKoOct 7, 2024
@jame sorry but thats not right. You pay per month and own that function during that time. And when you change to a different car you have there the same functions. This is a use case that is interesting especially for companies. And if you buy then the car as a used car all features an disabled and will be enabled according to your Abos. And if you need your seat heating only in winter you only have to pay for it fmduring winter. So you don't have to care what functions it has or not. The 1/2
Show threadDoKoOct 7, 2024
@jame bad thing is more that you have to carry the full features with you, all the time, even you havn't activated them. And the prizing... But it's BMW, so prizes does not care. For the use case that are most BMW are sold to first hand (companies) the abo is ok.
Show threadWave
@DoKo you are the problem.
Oct 7, 2024 at 7:18pmWeb
Show threadDoKoOct 7, 2024
@jame you want to use it in the wrong way