Correct, but the benefit for Holden was a whole heap of V8 sales...What's their incentive to update software on an obsolete car? It's not as if most VF owners are going to be return customers these days..
Looking after your customer has a multitude of benefits, one of which is repeat business. Look after them and they are likley to come back. Disregard them or don’t support the product they purchased and these customers are almost certain to desert your brand. Such desertions are amplified 10 fold as they let others know of how they were treated.
It’s simply a good forward thinking business strategy to look after your customers, something that Holden doesn’t do well based on what I read in these forums and through personal experiance after signing on the dotted line to buy my MSE.
And to be clear, VF MyLink is open source based with GM proprietary modules so they should be able to simply recompile the firmware with a few different switch combinations to release a pandora free version and run an automated test routine. It’s not a million dollar job. If their system doesn’t work in this way and is idiotically difficult to recompile and test, then their software designers need to be taken out to the back shed and dismissed.
Adding AA/ACP may be marginally more engaging as a module likely needs to be added. A module that should already exist.
Reality is Holden CBF and a grass roots movement to get enlighten them may actually achieve something. Just as occured with the V8 issue so many years ago.