• jqubed@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Are they going to take the Amazon Kindle route? Pay one price for the car or pay a lower price for the car that shows you ads? Not that the car makers would use it to lower the price of the cars, but raise the price of ad-free cars I’m sure.

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      3 hours ago

      Literally never works.

      It always becomes paying plus getting ads.

      It’s a god damned CAR. It costs most of a hundred thousand dollars! They don’t need whatever pennies they can scrape off your eyeballs, and if they did, I’d tell them to go out of business and then choke!

    • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business
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      17 hours ago

      No, they won’t.

      At best you’ll get some sort of nearly worthless concession because they have to slap in cellular hardware to make the ad bit work - something like you’ll get free traffic updates on your gps nav (sold seperately) - since they need some sort of enticement.

      No way they’d offer anything remotely looking like a meaningful discount.