While I think there needs to be alternatives I suspect a lot of people will be disappointed as many developers don’t alter pricing at all and we are going to see some really scummy behavior by some going forward.

I am a very infrequent user of the app store as is and we have always had freedom on the Mac platform and that just meant mostly other stores with their own embedded fee structure along with having to guess if a site and developer were trustworthy.

So we may just end up in a situation where we have a few large trusted app stores and still have to pay them all.

GM dealers simply had the benefit of a manufacturer not providing enough EVs for the consumers. If they can deliver in volume then dealers will have less of a window where they can mark up vehicles as there will be dealers who just want to move vehicles and recoup through manufacturer incentives and hold back.

there are big rumors that hybrids may come back in some markets but not necessarily the US but that remains to be seen

I live in Georgia and have zero issue paying the two hundred odd dollars to drive my EV. Sorry, man up. Many of us were given seventy five hundred dollars from the tax payers to assist in buying our cars so that two hundred plus per year thirty seven years to go back into another government coffer.

It is part of being on the leading edge of a change to society. EVs cost more and frankly anyone who can afford the EV can afford the piddly two hundred dollars.

So it is not an additional fee. Is it high relative to the overall gas tax in Georgia, possibly, depends on how many miles you drive each year.

Interesting video but honestly game selection is so bad on Mac and compromises for how to play not native times leaves with the same feeling of buying store brands at the grocery store. The quality might be there but there experience is always lacking.

Our unions are not the same. If they were people would likely have a different perception and membership would be increasing.

the new “people’s car” … doesn’t have to have the long range of traditional automobiles but ideally it should be close to 200 miles of range and just a no frills comfortable ride that does not feel cheap.

We just have to agree on what no frills is.

Outside of power windows and locks everything else can be manual with at most some control over wiper speed. heck to keep costs down no controls need to be replicated to the steering wheel and the screen provided can simply access Apple Car Play or Android Auto to provide anything more than current media playing and status of the car. There would likely be a simple cruise control option but given current safety kicks TACC is not out of the question

I put power windows and locks in there because its just cheaper to use them than not as it is such common hardware and saves packaging space as well.

options would cover all those other features people like to add on like power and heated seats, automatic climate control, and more.

tl;dr it is their choice and believe someone probably doesn’t like what I or you drive either. Be happy and drive. For me I love see an assortment of vehicles while driving and challenge myself to know more about each; its not like I will know squat about the driver.

I really do not understand this subs hate towards pickup trucks. As a whole its not likely we know all the uses someone we see during a commute or just running errands a driver has of the vehicle. To be frank, why should a sports car, super car, large suv, or similar, get a pass. What is the criteria used to automatically call out a pickup driver and give everyone else a pass? It just is personal choice and I am glad that most if not all here get to make that choice in their lives. Drive a two seat sports car or pickup is all the same to me but I suspect the pickup can actually be employed for other uses; heck I still borrow my father’s truck on occasion.

Nothing I said about does not make the claim that some people only have them as “pavement princesses” but I know more than a few owners of sports cars to include exotics who have never tracked them and lets not start on people with vehicles sold with solid off road capacity never doing more than Starbucks runs.

Is anyone reading the article? This is about part pairing where they prevent swapping parts even from like machines by third party repair shops. Louis Rossman found this issue on even some mundane parts where you just cannot replace them and have a functioning device.

So replace a part and the software blocks the phone use of it or worse disables other features.