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Originally Posted by Thelof
It is completely asinine. Providing heated seats or adaptive cruise is not a consumable item that requires a subscription. BMW is not providing you a service by allowing you to have built in features which have no ongoing costs to BMW.
If they are going to charge you an ongoing fee are they also going to warranty these items past the manufacturer warranty? And how long are they going to support the subscription service for my vehicle? 10yrs? what happens afterwards? Are my seats or other feature still going to work?
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If it is anything like CarPlay was when it was under subscription the feature would be unavailable if the car can't "phone home" to BMW and verify you have access. That implies you may lose access during on outage, but also you'd lose access once the cell phone connection in the car no longer works (which is realistic since BMW isn't yet putting 5G in any of their cars and 4G LTE will get retired at some point).
https://www.engadget.com/2019-05-10-...ay-outage.html