[BC] HD Radio's lack of upgrade capability

[Barry Mishkind]

Steve,

Of course, few will do it. That was in an earlier post.

The issue here is the COST of ANY upgrade. Who would pay for it?

Even IF people could be cajoled into upgrading it, would your company do it?

At 04:29 AM 10/19/2005, SteveOrdinetz wrote
>  Barry Mishkind wrote:
>
>>         Given the cheapness of the smaller
>>         flash drives, or even small flash cards,
>>         wouldn't a slot on the radio to accept
>>         an SD or Memory stick be the "easiest"
>>         way?  The consumer only has to insert
>>         the media.... and the program loader
>>         handles the rest.
>>
>>         Still it doesn't cover the issue of who
>>         pays.
>
>Do you honestly think ANYONE is gonna do this?  How many people 
>regularly update the soft/firmware in anything?  How many bother to 
>bring their cars in to the dealer for a non-major-safety recall?  A 
>radio isn't supposed to be complicated.
>