Not that you’re wrong about what MP has or hasn’t done, but a half a million dollars is nearly no money in this type of industry. After you’ve paid for research, design, equipment, and labor, you’ve easily got a million dollars in sunk cost.
MP isn't beta testing anything. They haven't unlocked it. You put key in door and unlock it, it's unlocked. No need to "beta test it". You jail brake an iPhone, it's unlocked, there is nothing to beta test. You don't TEST an unlock. There are no "kinks to work out". If they truly unlocked it they would already be preselling it with $500 non-refundable deposits.
Fair enough but wouldn't they want some of that back. Waiting for competition is about the stupidest thing I have ever heard. Ever! Thinking through this, the only why they earn a million on this is to truly lock down their processes and remain the only company that can do/sell it for the next two years. That's a risky move when you can go to market first as the leader and start recouping costs immediately. If someone else gets this done and beats them to market then they've lost all that R&D money anyone.
lol. I was around working on the first iPhone unlock. That is so fucking far from the truth. We probably bricked 100k worth of phones in the process. In fact, the first jailbreak was physical (you had to solder), even after we got to software-based exploits, there were a MILLION kinks and bugs to nail down.
Yea exploiting a system as complex as this one time doesn't mean you've cracked it in a way that can be packaged and sold. There could be a number of keys they have to develop or a sequence of jobs that executes different commands until success is achieved.
I'd bet they had to buy a bunch of ECUs from wrecked cars and ended up bricking a bunch before they ever tried it on a functioning vehicle.
This is my big thing. I really don't know what's going on over at MP, but if they are lying, and put together a video on it, why bother? Why go through the effort. There's no marketing or business benefit there.
