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Originally Posted by chris719
The software development cost is almost zero because they have an existing team employed designing the rest of that software and firmware. It’s probably a feature that took half of a 2 week sprint to implement. The cost of the buttons is also cheap when spread across the entire line but I assume they have to pay for molds, tactile switch, and wiring and/or a small PCB. Over 1M units I am going to assume the cost of the physical buttons swamp the dev and test costs. If those guys weren’t implementing HVAC controls they probably would have spent their time implementing lower priority features that no one cares about.
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We won‘t ever know how long it took. That said, I would be impressed if they had made the climate menu in a single 2 week sprint. It is an entirely new feature to idrive (not just a reskin/rework of idrive 7), and while in a perfect agile world, you are probably correct in saying it cost nothing. The problem is, agile often isn‘t perfect. Features change, scope changes, timeline changes, teams change. Just because a developer should be able to do something in a small timeframe, doesn‘t mean that actually happens, and it doesn‘t even have to be at the fault of the developer.
Anyway, everyone is entitled to their opinion. I don‘t think I will have a problem with this climate menu, we will find out once I receive the vehicle. The important part is I am keeping an open mind.
Some people will love it, some will hate it. The point is, not everyone is going to love it, and not everyone is going to hate it. This is an enthusiast forum, ofc its going to be biased towards hating it because this forum‘s demographic is skewed toward car enthusiast, physical buttons, analog clusters, manual transmissions, etc… Unfortunately, not everyone that drives a BMW is a car enthusiast (I wish). Probably not even the majority anymore. Therefore they are catering to those. That isn‘t BMWs problem, or car enthusiast problem. It is just reality.