It's not that the market is moving away, but more like car companies realized if they want to sell monthly subscriptions in the future, they need to own the software.

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bitmasher9 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The car companies need to stay in their lanes on this one. You’re risking selling a >$40k piece of hardware that requires professional service every six months in order to sell me $240/yr in software subscriptions.

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orthogonal_cube 6 hours ago | parent [-]

$240/yr in software subscriptions but likely far more than that by selling the extra metadata they can extract from the service

	▲	bhhaskin 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		its likely not the metadata, since they already have access and sell that, but then they can sell ads on maps like Google does.

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my_username_is_ 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is crazy to me because the primary value proposition of Rivian's Connect+, as I see it, is enabling the hotspot while you're in the car and being able to monitor Gear Guard while you're away from the car. These are entirely separate from supporting CarPlay/Android Auto.

If Rivian et al. truly want to sell a premium product, their software needs to be premium. And frankly it's just not there. The other day I was trying to listen to an upcoming album that has a few singles released. On my phone I can do that no problem. On the Rivian Spotify app, the album just didn't show up. It wasn't possible to play those songs in order without searching for the songs one by one. There are a ton of things that I love about my R1T, but as more time passes, the gap between what they offer and what other manufacturers offer becomes more and more apparent