Wladimir Palant on Nostr: If people loosing access to their books when the vendor goes out of business was ...

If people loosing access to their books when the vendor goes out of business was already bad, now the same thing is happening to cars: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/10/connected-car-failure-puts-kibosh-on-sale-of-3300-fisker-oceans/

I know, it is happening all over the place, merely with pieces of technology not quite as expensive. Maybe, just maybe, having basic functionality depend on external components isn’t such a great idea?

And since I don’t see “the market” ever discovering this, maybe some regulation is in order? Just so the next tech startup going out of business (or merely unwilling to support “outdated” hardware) isn’t an occasion to throw away tons of products in perfect working order.