<story><title>Jailbreaking Used Teslas</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3mb3w/people-are-jailbreaking-used-teslas-to-get-the-features-they-expect</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>illumanaughty</author><text>Owners of photoshop don&amp;#x27;t get free updates even though they own their computer. Software costs money to develop so saying all updates should be free simply because they already own the hardware doesn&amp;#x27;t makes any sense.</text></item><item><author>dragosmocrii</author><text>I remember when Tesla issued that paid software update to make your car accelerate 0-100 a 0.1 seconds faster. If the hardware is there unchanged, why should the software update be a paid upgrade? It means the software was not good to begin with. Seems to me Tesla is trying to model a software development business, but they forget they&amp;#x27;re in the hardware business</text></item><item><author>ydlr</author><text>How long until Tesla (or any manufacturer) remotely disables the ignition on all used cars until the new owner pays them to turn it back on.&lt;p&gt;Its only fair. After all, the new owner just bought a hunk of metal from the previous owner. They still need to purchase a license for features like starting the car.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simon1573</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t agree with the analogy. Tesla manufacturers the whole package and you buy the car as a package. You don&amp;#x27;t buy the metal from your local car dealer and the software as a separate thing from Tesla.&lt;p&gt;A more fitting analogy would be Apple charging you to upgrade your BIOS.</text></comment>
<story><title>Jailbreaking Used Teslas</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3mb3w/people-are-jailbreaking-used-teslas-to-get-the-features-they-expect</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>illumanaughty</author><text>Owners of photoshop don&amp;#x27;t get free updates even though they own their computer. Software costs money to develop so saying all updates should be free simply because they already own the hardware doesn&amp;#x27;t makes any sense.</text></item><item><author>dragosmocrii</author><text>I remember when Tesla issued that paid software update to make your car accelerate 0-100 a 0.1 seconds faster. If the hardware is there unchanged, why should the software update be a paid upgrade? It means the software was not good to begin with. Seems to me Tesla is trying to model a software development business, but they forget they&amp;#x27;re in the hardware business</text></item><item><author>ydlr</author><text>How long until Tesla (or any manufacturer) remotely disables the ignition on all used cars until the new owner pays them to turn it back on.&lt;p&gt;Its only fair. After all, the new owner just bought a hunk of metal from the previous owner. They still need to purchase a license for features like starting the car.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bonzini</author><text>The hardware and software manufacturers are different, no? IBM mainframe owners do get updates for free.</text></comment>