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by rapsin4 840 days ago
How will the app talk the car without a cloud service? Are you technical?
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If you can swap out the 2G module for a 3G module, then the company has lost it's excuse for shutting down it's cloud. Companies that make a car that consumers expect to last 20 years should operate the cloud for the lifetime of the car.
Plenty of apps let you connect directly to things, why wouldn't this be possible?
Because they didn't build it that way. I worked you a company that wrote software for connected cars like this. Universally those platforms were the absolute worst. Underpowered, unreliable and sold for far to much.
Right, we're saying that it could have been built that way.
...or updated to do so.