I really think they are removing anything which could possibly confuse the user, and thought “well, we all have unlimited connections, what’s the problem?”
You might think this was unlikely, but during the 1980s car manufacturers started to remove the temperature gauge, replacing it with a “cold” indicator. Why? Because research had shown that there was a significant waste of service time due to people fussing about the gauge. When a car was new, the temperature tended to be high due to friction; as friction reduced, the normal running indication dropped, and this caused people to return cars for investigation. The average cost per car was more than the cost of the gauge.
I can testify to this having worked for a company that was asked to design a gauge which had only two positions, cold and hot, and would after a few minutes of running slowly move from cold to hot. They subsequently went with removing the gauge entirely.
So I had to dig out the iPad at work for testing something on iOS. It hasn’t been used much since i’d got it (the first big-ass one with a keyboard cover…how ever old that is)
So of course it won’t reset and I needed to go into recovery mode and beat it into submission.
Some where along the line I said, “Sure, upgrade to 11.0.3”
My 1977 280Z had the temperature gauge, ammeter, oil pressure guage and tachometer in addition to the speedometer. My 2010 Prius has none of the above.
I haven’t done this update. Should I just not bother until 11.0.4 arrives?
I recently picked up a $180 Android, rooted it and dropped in the latest Android. Took twenty minutes and I get to decide what’s on it and how it works.
But you guys have that great iTunes thing, so yeah. That’s a choice.
See, it doesn’t matter to me. A phone is a tool, like a hammer. I use it to make calls and things like that, I have no need to be in the Apple infrastructure so I spend a quarter as much on my hardware.
As I recall, oil pressure gauges were removed because it was found that cars failed more often due to loss of oil from the gauge piping than through “ordinary” low oil pressure. When the strain gauge oil pressure gauge came in, manufacturers didn’t want the additional cost of putting them back again.
Ammeters too are a potential point of failure.
Tachometers though - I can see why a Prius wouldn’t have one, but both my Toyotas are more recent than yours and both have tachometers despite being automatics. One has auxiliary paddle shifts, the other doesn’t.
