[ilyanep]

It's really more like getting a Ford vs third-party part for your car, which yes, every car manufacturer will recommend. It's not like Apple is trying to sell you Apple electricity.

Regardless, this is a pretty low-effort attempt to make a point.

[solarkraft]

Car manufacturers may recommend against custom parts, but they probably don't (yet) detect you're using one and work to make your experience worse.

Safety is one thing. Working against your customer another.

[perl4ever]

My Dell laptop constantly used to tell me I was using a non-Dell battery (falsely). So I think there are probably quite a few instances of electronics having ways of detecting aftermarket parts, and there might well be automotive examples. I suspect printers that detect authentic ink cartridges exist. Wouldn't bet that it hasn't been done in the automotive realm.

[kolpa]

Yes they do.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xykkkd/why-americ...

[brians]

Yup. Relatedly, devices on a CAN bus don't authenticate each other, and we're seeing real security & safety problems as a result. Ford—or Tesla and Volvo—will start locking those down this decade, or start seeing more incidents.

[throwaway2048]

Third party parts in car are protected by law.