I'm betting they're paying more than the servers per car for the cellular connectivity.
It's not what we pay obviously. But it's not free either.
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That's the generous best case of what you can tell a computer to display to, and it is still guaranteed to make text look like absolute shit.
It is not possible to use the terrible resolution of any of the quests to replace multiple physical monitors for productivity. The displays are bad for literally everything but entertainment.
I'm not talking about passing monitors through. I'm talking about having multiple virtual monitors in your field of view.
A shitty virtual 1080p screen taking your entire field of view is not even vaguely capable of being used for productivity purposes. It's not remotely close. The whole point of multiple physical displays is to have a meaningful amount of information directly visible at once.
There is no comparable tech.
You can't get just a headset with comparable resolution, without the high quality low latency passthrough or the computer, for meaningfully less.
No you can't.
The resolution is not close to sufficient for a monitor with any meaningful amount of text on it. Your eyes will be bleeding in about 2 minutes.
All you have to do is not block the iPad app though.
That's just the cost of doing business.
The system now is that you have to call them, get bombarded with ads and berated by their customer service for an hour, then maybe they'll think about cancelling you. And gyms are even worse.
A switch with flash cart would play the games perfectly.
You mean, the same as the switch does normally, which in most of those same games, is not particularly well, because the switch is super low power.
They're not growing or picking or shipping one banana. They're growing it by the tree, picking by the bunch, and shipping by huge units.
I was thinking 15 so I can do homework in high school and get As instead of Bs to play the whole "good college" game. Maybe actually try on SATs. Etc.
Like, if I go from 35 to 15 do I go back to school, clear student loan debts, etc?
Because redoing the lead up and college with the maturity to actually try would probably be good.
They could be paying licensing per user for some third party solution that meets the security requirements of stuff like remote unlocking. (Yeah, they also could do it themselves, at the cost of hiring a couple security experts, and the scale should make it pretty cheap per car, but a lot of the times companies like to hire it out so they have someone to point to if there are flaws.)
They could also just not care and do a shitty job, but doing the software part correctly isn't free either. But yeah, cellular with how little they use it and economies of scale isn't going to be a massive outlay, but it's something that makes some sense to have behind a paid service. Right now it's not a huge cost, but down the road, if they're paying for 20 years of cars worth of connectivity when most of them aren't used, it could add up to meaningful expenses that are pointless.