I didn’t really get it until I read the article (shut up 😃), but it seems pretty clear that Mazda’s primary concern here appears to be access to this API through Home Assistant cutting off future (maybe current) owners’ requirement to subscribe to their app for features.
God forbid. Wouldn’t want users to find any of this useful in novel ways. Because that never makes a product popular or anything. And Mazda might lose hundreds of dollars or something. Gasp.
How far can americans go in their struggle against small mailboxes? I mean, what other solution is there, with their huge, largely-empty front lawns, than to use a car to accept the packages?
I didn’t really get it until I read the article (shut up 😃), but it seems pretty clear that Mazda’s primary concern here appears to be access to this API through Home Assistant cutting off future (maybe current) owners’ requirement to subscribe to their app for features.
man, remember when you could buy a car and it wasnt connected to the internet?
Remember when you could buy a car and it was yours?
John Deere doesn’t
Remember when you could download a car?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Pepperidge farms remembers.
God forbid. Wouldn’t want users to find any of this useful in novel ways. Because that never makes a product popular or anything. And Mazda might lose hundreds of dollars or something. Gasp.
Pretty soon we’ll have to subscribe to our car’s trunk.
BMW on the line for you, sir.
2018-2021
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/amazon-key-in-car-delivers-right-to-your-cars-trunk/
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/28/amazon-ends-service-that-delivers-packages-to-prime-members-cars.html
How far can americans go in their struggle against small mailboxes? I mean, what other solution is there, with their huge, largely-empty front lawns, than to use a car to accept the packages?
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