who cares about the cost of a mandatory license?
Whoever has to pay for it cares.
Tesla has data on what % of model 3 owners use homelink after all.
If they install at the factory they must charge
100% of buyers for the license (and the parts of course) to cover their own costs.
Obviously their data found that enough people do NOT use it that it made sense to NOT pass on that cost to 100% of owners, but still offer it as an after-delivery option to those who still want it and want to pay the fee for it.
developing a CarPlay interface for the car has its own cost that tesla would have to bear anyway. go ahead and pass it along to me
Tesla has been pretty clear- for years- they have 0 interest in doing that versus putting development $ toward their own interface.
They wouldn't have bothered developing their own text message system for the UI for example if they were just gonna do CP/AA.
... that's not my gripe. my gripe is that they nickel and dime you to death with accessories and apparently refuse to implement things that they'd have to pay royalties on which other car manufacturers happily do.
And those other manufacturers pass the cost on to every single customer even if they had no desire or use for the licensed tech.
It's weird that your gripe appears to be "Tesla isn't screwing us as badly as everyone else"
that's the biggest laugh i've had all day - so the nav algorithm still uses the traffic data - ok... honestly that's not how people expect to use traffic data.
People don't expect that the nav will use traffic data to plot the quickest route in light of current traffic conditions?
Really?
Because that's what the Tesla nav does even without premium data...and is kinda the main reason to HAVE traffic data.
they want to look at the screen and see where the congestion is. i'm sure everyone who uses google maps and apple maps would be 100% happy to have the display of the traffic data removed even though "it's still there". if it's so worthless to people, why does tesla include display of traffic info in a $100 per year uncharge?? really.
So your theory is people want traffic data, NOT to actually get the fastest route... but to look at pretty colored lines?
That's... certainly... an opinion....