I've often thought that consumer product companies milk us for big purchases with a 'How much is the top dollar they'll spend every month, and how can we make sure they trade up every time they get close to the end of their financing?' attitude. Unfortunately, seems like a lot of companies keep us buying new with a lack of quality/durability.
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There is a line of popular tablets that I won't buy. On those, if you want more memory, you have to buy a new one.
I choose to
not ignore the lesson from "640k is enough". If/when I buy a tablet, it will have expandable memory.
That's my preference, but a major company that wants to produce in high volume can't ignore consumer trends. New vehicles are being differentiated more and more as "mobile interconnect platforms" and other similar phrases that don't have anything to do with the utitility of physical transportation.
Vehicle marketing has usually been directed "Young". Some of this latest marketing spin may be motivated out of desperation - fewer young people (being mostly an urban population today) are getting driver's licenses than in the past.
These interconnect features are being added to vehicles partly as an attempt to get these "late bloomer" drivers to put down their smartphones, and get behind the wheel.
Often Ignorance is Bliss..... you really don't want to know about the # of software control threads zooming around on a modern car.... and that's just in the infotainment system !
I expect this trend to keep moving past light vehicles in a big way, once it has a critical mass there.
Rgds, D.
