Why? Because then they can’t charge you for the new “CarThing” two years later, when they try again with a different product.
Like, your concern is that someone has monopoly access and is trying to limit supply for a control pad on the dash? Can’t agree. There’s not a lot of ability to limit access to that.
If you want to, you can rig up some kind of dash-mounted control pad for your smartphone. Like, get old Android phone, put mpd client on it, connect to mpd server running on your regular phone, stick old Android phone to dash.
Like, your concern is that someone has monopoly access and is trying to limit supply for a control pad on the dash? Can’t agree. There’s not a lot of ability to limit access to that.
If you want to, you can rig up some kind of dash-mounted control pad for your smartphone. Like, get old Android phone, put mpd client on it, connect to mpd server running on your regular phone, stick old Android phone to dash.