Re:Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users
by LtWorf on Thursday June 18, 2026 @10:20AM
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It's considered premium until you see the amount of recalls they do for important things like brakes braking and wheels staying attached to the car.
https://www.go-parts.com/garage/brake-pedal-tesla-cybertruck...
https://www.tparts.com/blogs/tesla-latest-news/tesla-issues-...
Re:Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users
by rickdeckard on Friday June 19, 2026 @04:41AM
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Apparently I need to clarify, as it's not obvious from my previous comments: _I_ don't consider Tesla premium at all, it is NOT a premium hardware company.
It's bad quality hardware hiding behind an cleaner engine and some software features.
It is EXACTLY the product of a hardware company which keeps treating hardware-production like it's software, as described above.
No one said that it shouldn't.
What I wrote is, that the approach of minimizing any SURFACE of risk in software creates the (subjectively good and solid) software of previous car-generations (in Volkswagen terms: MIB2 ~ a bit downhill already in MIB3): A solid, predictable and closed product fulfilling its core use-case.
But it DOESN'T create a user experience with those "fun" niche features, competitive remote-access Smartphone features, exposed API's, sudden new features during lifecycle, funny "ludicrous modes" etc.
And today's customers are demanding those features, it's now a hygiene factor for a premium experience on Smartphones as well as on cars.
A Tesla is not considered a "Premium" car because of its premium hardware or manufacturing quality. They disrupted the car-industry by being the first to apply a software-dev mindset to it, and the consumer perceives this as premium.