How is this any different than using snow tires, which is also a recurring cost and requires you to do something (ie. change your tires) before you can use it?
I answered the question humorously. If it was a silly question, that's not my fault. :)
No "Begging the Question" here. Nice try.
That’s exactly begging the question.
Oh please. Again it's my answer to the question.
"[The difference is that this is] slow encroaching market takeover by artificially crippled products for blood-sucking rent seeking."
Hope this helps.
that's the point that's up for discussion, but that's just being asserted with no supporting arguments.
Seemed self-explanatory enough to me.
I see you didn't take Econ 101.
Since this is what you're reduced to, I see real discussion is finished now. Thank you for contributing.
Okay but practically speaking you're not changing your tires for fun. You're changing it specifically to improve winter driving performance. For all practical purposes changing your tires is the same as activating the feature on these smart tires, even if the former involves the tires being removed/added.
I get that they're logically equivalent, but it goes against my world view to pay per activation on something like this. I have great disdain for the subscriptionication of everything.
Do you feel the same about software/SaaS that gate features to different license tiers? After all, the functionality is already in the code.
It’s not free to do pretty much anything, even sending a single HTTP request, so curious how you calibrate.