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The New Audi A3 Is Amess With In-Car Subscriptions (www.motor1.com)
submitted 8 months ago by absquatulate@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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So far there's subscriptions for cruise control, adaptive beams, various navigation options, apple/google integration and my favorite, dual-zone climate.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The logic behind the concept originally made sense, they manufacture just one car with all the features as that reduces manufacturing overhead by a ton

Yeah, at the 'minor' cost of the fact that the method of enforcing that market segmentation relies on using DRM to infringe upon everybody's property rights.

Sure, that "make sense" -- if you're a capitalist sociopath trying to turn consumers into serfs. But we sure as Hell shouldn't let them get away with it!