Comment on Volkswagen Will Bring Back Physical Buttons In New Cars | Down with touch screen controls.
JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 9 months agoIt’s a combination of, car manufacturers want to put cheap parts in where possible to maximize profit, and these snappy tablets you refer to aren’t snappy for a decade or even live a decade. Car screens need to make it the life of the car, which is expected to be roughly 10 years with most brands, if it sucks the same year 1 as it does year 10 that’s a success. The car manufacturers are valuing reliability over performance
DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
If you don’t bloat the software it will run the same year 10 as in year 1. The reason electronics get slow, is because developers tend to get lazy when compute resources are abundant.