Don’t buy from company that disrespect you like that. Simple.
Problem is once one of them do it, all of them do it. Remember having a removable battery? the headphone jack? DVD drives?
the business model works, and its infecting other sectors now.
Problem is once one of them do it, all of them do it
Yes. Because people kept buying it. Most consumers are either ignorant or retarded. If a company does something and the money stop flowing because people stop buying it, they would reverse their course VERY quickly. Nothing forces a company as much as consumers stop buying.
The problem is that most people apparently don’t give a shit about their consumer rights and will just mindlessly buy the next device that fucks their rights up the ass.
Don’t buy from companies that do this, should be obvious?
Tough to do for hardcore BrokenMoneyWaster fans.
They would put airbags behind a subscription if we let them.
There are motorcycle air bag vests with a subscription…
I don’t need them while driving. Unheated seats are the bigger discomfort.
For anyone actually wondering, no BMW never made it so you had to pay a subscription for heated seats. The backlash was enough to end that before it happened.
True for the US
According to a BMW spokesperson, seat heaters were offered in subscription form in the UK, Germany, New Zealand, South Korea, South Africa, etc.
They stopped with the seats but are still trying
https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20230908-bmw-drops-plan-heated-seats/
Interesting. Maybe that’s the case another countries I’m in the US. The seat heaters just work you don’t have to do anything.
Wasnt Mercedes paywalling full throttle use if you wanted to go fast(er)?
Tesla does this currently
There’s added warranty exposure there at least for extra power. That’s assuming it’s actually extra and not artificially deflated. Factory sanctioned tunes are common.
What about the adaptive shockabsorbers? IIRC they were on a monthly subscription.
I believe you just pay once and then it is permanent, no subscription. Still total BS, but not a subscription.
And to be honest it’s really nice for the second hand market. Every car gets heated seats installed, and the next owner can “activate” them.
Plus bmw always provided the option to pay in full for them, or BNPL model it.
