> I hope that you balance it with a healthy skepticism
Sure. And I have personal experience with service that tells me they aren’t so evil at all. I give the personal experience more weight than internet theories from people who don’t know of what they speak. Not referring to you necessarily but in general there are a lot of highly opinionated people here who have never bothered to acquaint themselves with the actual facts, instead relying on internet rumors or opinions from random people like Linus on Youtube, an expert on, of all things, PC hardware.
> Tesla sells heated seats etc and when you buy it, what you get is a software update enabling the existing hardware - it's artificial scarcity
That’s just an uninformed opinion. Tesla already explained why they did this, and the reasons were legitimate.
Sure. And I have personal experience with service that tells me they aren’t so evil at all. I give the personal experience more weight than internet theories from people who don’t know of what they speak. Not referring to you necessarily but in general there are a lot of highly opinionated people here who have never bothered to acquaint themselves with the actual facts, instead relying on internet rumors or opinions from random people like Linus on Youtube, an expert on, of all things, PC hardware.
> Tesla sells heated seats etc and when you buy it, what you get is a software update enabling the existing hardware - it's artificial scarcity
That’s just an uninformed opinion. Tesla already explained why they did this, and the reasons were legitimate.