Windows 10 strikes again !
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Originally Posted by
country gent
THe big change ive seen is it used to be you bought a program one time fee and used for duration, now alot of programs are "rented" monthly or yearly fee to keep active. Imagine the out rage if auto companies had a yearly fee for driving their cars.
Software as a service is a horrible business model for the consumer. It’s great for the company selling it because they have monthly income. As much as I’m not for regulation, software as a service needs to be regulated into nonexistence.
And auto companies have already floated such ideas. And if goes beyond yearly fees. A few weeks ago BMW floated the idea of paying to have certain features turned on. Say you want heated seats in the winter, just pay them a fee and they will turn it on. This is also the company that charges you for Apple CarPlay even though it’s every other make free of charge. You already paid for the hardware to be in your car so what would give them the right to disable features?
The question w/ this type of thins becomes “do you own it?” Why would I pay for a car where they could disable features. Or worse yet the entire vehicle because there was a clerical error and they thought you didn’t may this month. I already have a major issue w/ OnStar being installed in everything. I don’t consent to the tracking. But most people want convenience over privacy so the rest are made to suffer.