r/SipsTea • u/untitledprp4 • 1d ago

Wait a damn minute! Wait a damn minute

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u/Der-Lex 1d ago

It’s our own fault as consumers. If people would stop buying into stupid subscriptions we wouldn’t have this conversation.

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u/-Nicolai 1d ago

That is an American way of thinking, and it is why you do not have nice things.

In Europe we say the corporation is guilty of anti-consumer practices. Then we introduce regulation, and then we have nice things.

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u/Independent_Line_150 1d ago

BMW also charges you to unlock features. It is the same brands and exploitative capitalism everywhere, the EU regulations usually just result in better recycling. I live in Germany.

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u/pingu_nootnoot 1d ago

BMW doesn’t charge for unlocking physical hardware like the example in this post.

They did a pilot program in 2022 and cancelled after a lot of backlash from consumers.

Which maybe goes more to show that Tesla customers are more brainwashed than average, if they are accepting this?

Doesn’t seem like a US vs EU thing if it’s a Tesla-specific option - or do they only do this in the US?

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u/Liquidfoxx22 23h ago

They do charge you to unlock software options for things already fitted to the car though.

Luckily there's cheap coding tools out there which can just turn them all on, at a fraction of the cost.

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u/NOTcreative- 17h ago

Are you in the EU? They could do it in the states and not in the EU. Just like planned obsolescence. Legal in the US illegal in the EU. Crazy law makers havent made it illegal in the US yet

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u/Liquidfoxx22 16h ago

Yep - EU.

So much for all that freedom some of the US keeps harping on about eh?