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Comment by alephnerd

That button is an increasingly expensive component at scale, as it's a separate component to manufacture and build a supply chain for, as well as an additional component to add which can potentially fail.

This is why most carmakers are moving towards touchscreens now as well.

If you want to keep prices roughly comparable to previous SKUs in the midst of trade and supply chain kerfuffles, there has to be cost cutting somewhere.

parent alephnerd 2 years ago

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