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Originally Posted by sigmabody
Just to emphasize the totally obvious: the fact that these settings are able to be enabled locally, without any active online subscription service, proves conclusively that there's no technical or functional reason whatsoever that they imply any ongoing cost whatsoever for BMW, and shutting them off unless the customer pays the ongoing extortion fee to BMW is pure and unadulterated corporate greed.
This is in contrast to, for example, the real-time traffic information service, which probably has some marginal ongoing cost for BMW to provide, so at least in concept there's some rational justification for passing the ongoing costs along to the consumer, to continue using the feature.
Gating this feature behind the subscription service is just pure, disgusting, contemptable greed and customer-hostile product design (and dishonest product feature descriptions and marketing, as a cherry on top).
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I hear you brother. Unfortunately, Telsa has proven how tolerate customers can be when it comes to subscription for features that should have been amortized into the car cost. Just blame Elon LoL.