This is the kind of thing I worry about when it comes to our modern technology. BMW charging a monthly fee to use a feature in the car you've "purchased". #BMW doesn't need to do anything to make this work. You already have everything you need to have the feature. It's just you need to be paying the fee for BMW to LET you use a feature in your own car. The subscription economy is out of hand.
https://www.motor1.com/news/597376/bmw-heated-seats-subscription/
@mike
It's a very old game from IBM's playbook.
They realized (around the 80s, maybe?) that it was cheaper to ship a single SKU of mainframe and then let the customer pay for upgrades which consisted of the IBM tech punching some hardware key codes into the console than have various SKUs with various hardware configurations.
But making it a subscription is a new level of fsckery.
I hope someone drives a sedan through their bloody front window.
@m0xee @mike
That might be the case -- I never got deep enough into that world to know about that. I just had friends that were admins and security analysts for that platform. I was a Unix guy. ^__^