• @[email protected]
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    84 months ago

    Honestly, if a product last forever I wouldn’t mind it on a subscription model. The company needs to make money in order to, at the minimum, continue supporting the product.

    Then comes the costs of support staff, R&D for future product developments, etc etc.

    That price should not include massive yearly bonuses for the top execs.

    • @[email protected]
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      124 months ago

      It’s a battery. You put it in the car, and it powers it. How much support does the manufacturer need to provide that can’t be baked into the initial cost?

      • wanderingmagus
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        24 months ago

        gestures around Products as a service in general isn’t needed, but it’s done anyways. Single player games don’t need to be always-online and subscription-based. Same with movies. Same with cars. But in the world we live in, everything is becoming X-as-a-service. In this case, it wouldn’t surprise me a bit if they purposely built in a chip that would disable or otherwise limit the battery unless the purchaser client continued paying the subscription fee.