No Radio???
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No Radio???
I went to turn on Sirius Radio in my new (to me) F150 and learned that even though the front panel has all the buttons, things like XM radio, Aux, etc. don't work because they require separate plug-in modules. The XM radio module runs about $400, haven't priced the Aux plug-in yet.
At the cost of consumer electronics today, it seems like it'd be cheaper to just build 1 radio with all of the modules on a single board than to do it this way...
At the cost of consumer electronics today, it seems like it'd be cheaper to just build 1 radio with all of the modules on a single board than to do it this way...
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They could charge to enable/disable the features and still build just 1 radio.
I grew up with the computer industry of the 70s where computers often filled a large room. By the 80s the technology had advanced enough that the company I was working for only made 2 computers, but offered 5 models at different performance and cost levels (from about $1M to $5M). The difference between the $4M and $5M systems was the length of a single wire. Machine timing was based on that wire and the longer the wire the slower the timing. That was a LOT cheaper than designing 5 different computers!
Today's stuff could mostly be put on a chip. Build it into the board and lock/unlock it based on purchase price.
I grew up with the computer industry of the 70s where computers often filled a large room. By the 80s the technology had advanced enough that the company I was working for only made 2 computers, but offered 5 models at different performance and cost levels (from about $1M to $5M). The difference between the $4M and $5M systems was the length of a single wire. Machine timing was based on that wire and the longer the wire the slower the timing. That was a LOT cheaper than designing 5 different computers!
Today's stuff could mostly be put on a chip. Build it into the board and lock/unlock it based on purchase price.
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