Voting with your wallet only works in the positive direction. As long as enough people buy it to justify the development, they'll do it. And considering it's an if/else statement that costs $1000, it only takes one idiot in the whole world to pay for it. To "vote" against this you'd have to find some way of costing them millions of dollars.
The idea is that they'll lose just that, millions of dollars in lost sales as people gravitate away from them and towards brands that don't do subscriptions.
Ideally yeah, problem is the profit margin on a $50,000 car is only like $3500. So adding $1000 or $2000 of 1's and 0's is a huge increase in profits because you don't have to build anything - it's all gravy. Automakers will likely slowly start aligning on this until everyone is doing it. They don't have to overtly conspire because they all see the same numbers.
Sorry, I am just blackpilled on this. The only way I can see this turning around is something like a massive cyber terrorism incident like remotely bricking thousands of vehicles.
''Everything is a subscription'' is cancer.
Never pay for this crap. Do not allow it to become successful.
Subscriptions allow the sellers to become lazy. VW should be kept in their toes.
Voting with your wallet only works in the positive direction. As long as enough people buy it to justify the development, they'll do it. And considering it's an if/else statement that costs $1000, it only takes one idiot in the whole world to pay for it. To "vote" against this you'd have to find some way of costing them millions of dollars.
The idea is that they'll lose just that, millions of dollars in lost sales as people gravitate away from them and towards brands that don't do subscriptions.
Ideally yeah, problem is the profit margin on a $50,000 car is only like $3500. So adding $1000 or $2000 of 1's and 0's is a huge increase in profits because you don't have to build anything - it's all gravy. Automakers will likely slowly start aligning on this until everyone is doing it. They don't have to overtly conspire because they all see the same numbers.
Sorry, I am just blackpilled on this. The only way I can see this turning around is something like a massive cyber terrorism incident like remotely bricking thousands of vehicles.