BMW To Treat Apple CarPlay as a Subscription Service and Charge Customers an Annual Fee

[ORDER_66]

Yet beg for your loyalty. fukk them.

I know right!!!

 

[Tigron]

 

[MoneyTron]

Consumers finally smartening up with BMW profits falling, and value propositions like Hyundai/Genesis brand growing.

To be fair, everyone's profits are falling due to price competition, tariffs, and electrification R&D costs.

I was just at BMW HQ yesterday. They've cut a lot of staff in the past couple of months.

 

[ORDER_66]

To be fair, everyone's profits are falling due to price competition, tariffs, and electrification R&D costs.

I was just at BMW HQ yesterday. They've cut a lot of staff in the past couple of months.

How is BMW HQ was it nice???

 

[nyknick]

Car companies, especially luxury, have been ripping people off for a long time. Porsche is especially egregious with their $600 add-ons that come free in Kias.

They're especially looking funny in the light with Tesla constantly doing free OTA updates and providing other free improvements.

 

[MoneyTron]

How is BMW HQ was it nice???

Nah, its not all that impressive. It's a couple of regular office buildings. You get to see all of the cars early though. Had a few M8's rolling around.

Hyundai and Mercedes on the other hand.

 

[ORDER_66]

Nah, its not all that impressive. It's a couple of regular office buildings. You get to see all of the cars early though. Had a few M8's rolling around.

Hyundai and Mercedes on the other hand.

Nice....

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Ain’t carplay just the Bluetooth iOS app screen? Why the fukk would I subscribe to that

 

[ORDER_66]

Ain’t carplay just the Bluetooth iOS app screen? Why the fukk would I subscribe to that

BMW just fleecing these clueless customers man... How do they not realize you don't need to even have airplay

 

[DEAD7]

To be fair, no one has to buy a BMW...
Not sure what all the complaining is about... just don't drive one.

 

[newworldafro]

They gone start charging $50 a month to use the aux cord ... ..

 

[ORDER_66]

They gone start charging $50 a month to use the aux cord ... ..

Might as well throw the whole BMW in the trash...

 

[nyknick]

To be fair, no one has to buy a BMW...
Not sure what all the complaining is about... just don't drive one.

Ok we won't

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — BMW CEO Harald Krueger is stepping down after a four-year tenure in which the automaker lost its lead in luxury car sales and saw an early head start in electric vehicles evaporate.

Under Krueger’s four-year stewardship BMW also lost its market leading position in the luxury market to competitor Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz brand. More recently BMW lost money on its automotive business in the first quarter of the year after the company was hit by a 1.4 billion euro ($1.6 billion) charge for an anti-trust case and by higher upfront costs for new technology. Only the financial services and motorcycle divisions kept the group as a whole in profit.