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It just hit me when I saw this thread--for what other car would we think it's weird when there isn't a software update for a few weeks? Until very very recently, cars never got regular software updates. Not even for bug fixes. It wasn't even in the realm of possibility, a concept one even considered. And none actually significantly increased functionality and performance the way Tesla's have.
Truly we are living in the future.
you could look at it that way.
or, you could think that companies are releasing products that are mostly hardware-ready but whose software is still years behind. it gives an artifical 'start of delivery' and the business guys love that. but its not exactly honest. not really.
[onion_on_belt] a long time ago, thought was put into product design, user interface design and overall engineering and test. when a product was released, it had enough 'soak time' in design and test to not *need* further updates, other than an odd one on a very rare occasion. the fewer the updates, the better the designers and testers did; and the more they were able to predict how to design and test new models. [/oob]
enter the software-based world. its now 'ok' to not finish anything that can be 'worked around' in software. things ship early but they are buggy for a lot of their lifetime. some products end their lives, still with major unfixed bugs.
I'm not so sure things are better. they are different and faster, but they've pushed the test phase to us, the users.