Now, we find out that for your BMW i4 to perform an over-the-air software update, the vehicle has to be level. Our readers went straight to the comments with jokes. Reader MP81 kicked off a thread by saying: And mdharrell drove it home with this COTD-winner of a banger: Sid Bridge lobbed a giggle generator of his own: In reality, this makes sense when you think about it. Should the update go downhill for some reason, there’s an extra layer of safety in having the vehicle on level ground. It seems that this is what we may have to expect as cars continue their march towards being laptops with wheels. Still, I can’t stop laughing at these jokes. (Top Photo: BMW, The Autopian, and Mattias Hill) Adobe was under the intense pressure from the shareholders to deal with the less-than-stellar revenues. Its software packages (Creative Cloud, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom, Photoshop, etc.) were the world’s most pirated and hacked. In order to combat the software piracy and recover the revenue, Adobe switched from one-time purchase to subscription plans. Prior to the subscription plans, the users could decide whether to retain whatever versions they had or upgrade to the newer versions whenever they wanted. Now, they were royally pissed off, and the licence isn’t transferable or “rent-to-own”. If the users didn’t pay, the files they created are locked and inaccessible. This led to the mad rush of switching to the subscription plans amongst software developers thereafter. Now, the auto makers are on the bandwagons. And, AFAIK, for more end-user-oriented software, Microsoft was using subscriptions with Office 365 before Adobe began the Creative Cloud model, too. (It’s just that Microsoft kept offering perpetual licenses for Office, when Adobe very quickly abandoned perpetual Creative Suite.)
