can you buy a cell phone and use it at it's full functionality without having to pay for service? not really - connect it to wifi, you have to pay for wifi...so there's an understood default cost of using a cell phone. That cost will vary depending on the user's shrewdness in picking a carrier along with their needs.
buy a vehicle. can't drive it unless you buy fuel (gas/diesel/electricity) - this would be the argument that's closer to owning a cell phone and having to pay to use it...the more you want to use it, the more you have to pay.
the cell phone example as compared to supercruise would be more along the line of buying an iPhone and then having to pay to utilize the hot spot functionality that is on your phone. most plans have hotspot usage as an add-on for their plans, but there are still plans out there that exclude hot spot usage.
difference now is that you'd be hard pressed to buy a new cell phone that doesn't have a hot spot built in.
GM (at least not yet) isn't going to charge a subscription to utilize a basic feature that's on even the lowest priced trim level. With supercruise only being available on the highest trims, they know what the buyers of those vehicles will pay for...
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buy a vehicle. can't drive it unless you buy fuel (gas/diesel/electricity) - this would be the argument that's closer to owning a cell phone and having to pay to use it...the more you want to use it, the more you have to pay.
the cell phone example as compared to supercruise would be more along the line of buying an iPhone and then having to pay to utilize the hot spot functionality that is on your phone. most plans have hotspot usage as an add-on for their plans, but there are still plans out there that exclude hot spot usage.
difference now is that you'd be hard pressed to buy a new cell phone that doesn't have a hot spot built in.
GM (at least not yet) isn't going to charge a subscription to utilize a basic feature that's on even the lowest priced trim level. With supercruise only being available on the highest trims, they know what the buyers of those vehicles will pay for...
we all have opinions - ask 5 people and get 6 answers