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  • These types of things aren’t put into products to test if people will buy them. They are put into products to test to see if it brings the company more profits. Less people can buy them but that won’t matter if it can make them more money.

    On top of that this company doesn’t exist in a vacuum. There are other car manufacturers that will test the same subscription models as well. They follow each others leads and slowly normalize these new methods of profit extraction in collaboration with one another.

    It’s a lie that they are competing for your business. They are all working to make as much profit as possible and do absolutely follow the next method of doing so introduced by their “competitors”.

    The only thing they are testing is if it will negatively hurt next quarters earnings. So it needs to be introduced slowly by each manufacturer and promoted as a “feature” first. Then, as time goes on they can push it more and more as it’s normalized in the market.


  • It frustrates me that software is used to artificially limit the potential of technology in order to extract profits like this.

    Somehow, instead of having so many quality of life improvements from an amazing technology, that eliminates so much prior scarcity that existed, we get shit like this that enforces artificial scarcity.

    And the only thing we can do is laugh at it, until it’s forced on us by every corporate overlord and we have no choice but to except it as the new normal.










  • wheezy@lemmy.mltolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldFk'n Legend
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    The thing is, literally anyone working in the industry had visionary ideas at that time. The best of which were completely destroyed by people like Musk, Gates, and others that forced a profit model on an internet with unlimited potential.

    The most frustrating thing about the net is how much it has become owned by private companies. Our entire model of digital sales is built on a fake idea of scarcity on a technology that entirely removes the scarcity of resources that capitalism requires.

    People like him succeeded not because they had visionary or ground breaking ideas. They succeeded because they offered monetization models that could capture digital infrastructure and restrict its potential in order for their investor’s to profit.

    Edit: if this rant interests you you’d enjoy this documentary.

    https://youtu.be/oLLxpAZzy0s