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[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 76 points 1 year ago (39 children)

The feature isn't worth $15,000. They charge you that much to send a small, very specific sequence of bits to your car. That's what you're paying for because the feature's already built in.

[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 14 points 1 year ago (37 children)

I feel a bit conflicted on this. On the one hand, charging for heated seats that are already there and which is a purely hardware feature is bullshit.

Other things like Full Self Driving aren’t as black and white. Sure, the sensors are there but those are relatively cheap. A massive part of FSD is the software, and developing this kind of software is extremely expensive.

Should everyone get a copy of Windows and Office for free because it’s ‘just some bits’ and the hardware is already there?

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (14 children)

The windows analogy is almost there.

It's more like, you pay for windows home edition, which would take up 24gb in your 128gb hard drive. But nope, it's actually taking up 89gb. Why? Because it has all the features of Windows Ultimate edition, all locked away, taking up precious space in a hard drive that you've paid for.

[–] brockpriv@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most softwares work this way. You download the full thing. Your subscription level dictate what feature you can use.

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe today. That was not always the case. Especially software that attempts ti thwart piracy.

E.g. music packages.

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