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Apple products are good counter examples to your point. The cost of the basic software and OS w/ updates is included in the hardware


Counter counter point. Apple's most expensive offering is something like $1000-$1500 and they basically rely on people upgrading every year or two. Almost like a ........subscription.

Rather than a car which a person may keep for 20 years at a one time huge purchase. Its not really reasonable to expect a company to support something longer than even lifer employees will be there to work on it.

I do really really hate the idea of automotive subscription services though.


> Apple's most expensive offering is something like $1000-$1500

Same with Samsung, S25 Ultra ($1100 to $1460) [1], with the fold starting at $2k [2].

[1] S25 Ultra https://www.samsung.com/us/smartphones/galaxy-s25-ultra/buy/...

[2] Z fold, $2000 to $2500 https://www.samsung.com/us/smartphones/galaxy-z-fold7/buy/ga...


It is - in the link to the MIT Technology Review article


yea its not truly random. not sure how predictable the batching or caching is


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