It’s only purpose is literally to enable this rent-seeking, though.
And imagine if instead of wasting their time on that they added more features to the vehicle, or made existing features better.
"It's okay that they lock things behind subscriptions because how else would they pay for the mechanisms necessary to lock things behind subscriptions"
Re:Renting Horsepower
by riversflow on Thursday May 04, 2023 @05:52PM
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“If I don’t charge you to pass how will my boss pay me?” said the highwayman to the traveler.
But somebody designed, implemented and tested (presumably) the feature of remote enabling functionality for money, manages the subscription and payment systems, real time communications to the fleet of cars, etc.... that costs a lot of money and effort, doesn't come for free.