Software plans coming for all.

[Max]

I've used both, and pay for Photoshop. It's not mind boggling at all. There's functionality needed by tons of professional users in Photoshop that is not in GIMP. There are tools in Photoshop that make it a one step process to achieve an effect, where in GIMP you have to do 3,4,5 or more steps to achieve the same effect, and hope it does not crash. Time is money. Try doing CMYK in GIMP - it's a mess.

I take your word for it that you have a good reason. What I was referring to was people like me (not professionals) many of which I know personally that only use processes and functions that are available in both (some with plug-in in gimp). I have never experienced a crash for what I do. Some of the people I refer to were not aware of GIMP. Some of them saw Photoshop as the path of least resistance to start.

I don’t want to go off topic and didn’t mean to offend. My point is that once we get our Rivians, we are captive audience in our own moving box and we are likely not see other options and go for the ease and convenience of clicking on subscribe and three years later find out we have been paying for services we rarely used. I am sure there will be those that will get their money’s worth. As long as my choices are not reduced down the road with an OTA update and it is clear initially, I will be fine.

yeah. I have to admit, every year I've owned my Tesla since 2014 I've expected them to implement a subscription plan for updates and they haven't yet. But I assume they will go the way at some point.

You are paying for OTA with your data and use of the hardware in your model S. $10K FSD has been made possible for Tesla because you are sharing your data and let Tesla use your CPU for their development efforts. In addition, if there is a booboo to be fixed, OTA allows Tesla to skip costly recalls and lawsuits before anyone even knows anything was wrong.

Of course, I neither own a Tesla nor work for them so my understanding of the motives and how things work could be completely flawed.

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[Oculophilia]

Sometimes I feel like it takes a stupid person to buy a smart device. They often cost more, don’t last as long and tell you what to do instead of the other way around.

samsung smart TV ads make me want to learn coding so I can create my own IoT items.

 

[Oculophilia]

ICE makers are jealous and greedy. They've finally realized Tesla, BYD and others are a real threat to their market and their existence. They're apparently all going the way of Tesla: the EV owner is their food source, not their customer.

The "old" ICE model was to sell a machine that needed recurring maintenance, repair and consumables with business for finance, insurance, upgrades, etc. The "new" EV model is to sell an obsolescent machine, sell electricity, rent software functions instead of selling hardware, as well as the "bread and butter" of usury, racketeering and extortion (finance, insurance, upgrades.)

VW and others seem to think they can go to a "subscription model" (as the tech industry did last century) with projections of billions in revenue from recurring gouges and grifts.
Instead of selling a material product of value once, they keep charging for "services" every month/year, then charge to fix bugs, then charge to keep up with the way tech is never quite good enough, hardware is just a bit slow, batteries not quite strong enough.

Tesla has been gouging and grifting like this for years and they're a trillion dollar success based on no actual hard numbers, always the expectation that in the future, they'll make a killing. Spoiler: you and me are the prey to be killed…

Corporations see "cars become like phones" as a goal and aspiration of exponential revenues.
People should oppose the relentless government-sanctioned rackets that create these trillion dollar predators.

I've really enjoyed some of my cars over the years, but I've never given a hoot about a damn phone … fun gadgets to be sure … impressive leaps and bounds in features and functions … but phones are the drug of the insatiable status-victim consumer materialists … cars are toys and tools and infamously "the second most expensive consumer purchase after the home" … it's one thing to fritter away cash on a phone, entirely another order of magnitude to be herded into being the cattle of the EV industry.

Subscription based service is just one part of the "Great Reset" where you will own nothiing and you will be happy. We must fight this Tyranny on all fronts and at all costs.

Also planned obsolescence was the market norm since way before EV manufacturers. Phone and social media are scary to you huh? I went into Dollar General the other night and my cashier lady was video chatting with her daughter while she was getting ready for bed.

SCARY TECHNOLOGY FOR CONSUMERIST SNOWFLAKES, right ??

 

[Craigins]

samsung smart TV ads make me want to learn coding so I can create my own IoT items.

Hard part is the EE side, not the software.

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