2024 S Class
#26
MBWorld Fanatic!
Guess what? I bet the MB engineers and designers are not stupid at all. They have already figured out a lot of good things. But the MB market department does not want to release the 'latest and best' so quick.
I mean, like mobile phones, all the good things always do not get released all in one go. Eg the screen size, the resolution ...etc have been available as far as panel technology is concerned. But phone companies do not give you the top and the best so quick. They releases models with incremental improvements over several generations. The obvious reason:- to milk as much as possible from the consumers.
I mean, like mobile phones, all the good things always do not get released all in one go. Eg the screen size, the resolution ...etc have been available as far as panel technology is concerned. But phone companies do not give you the top and the best so quick. They releases models with incremental improvements over several generations. The obvious reason:- to milk as much as possible from the consumers.
As an example: Tidal lacks basic and fundamental features that actually break its functionality. If you only had so much space and did what you could with the space you had, well, you used the space you had as best you could. It's a choice you have to make sometimes because putting as much monitor as you can in confined spaces does lead to software decisions that limit functionality at times, It's a thing. I get it. On the other hand, when you are missing fundamental features that break software and have full modern smartphones worth of unused space on the relevant screen in your GUI you have a bad design, there is no getting around that.
But lets circle back to experience and touch controls. I owned the first car with an all touch cabin. It was a mistake that they later changed because people didn't like it and this did show in their product data in the form of lost sales. I think MB will see the same, and you're going to have (some) more hard buttons come back in the future. I do get why they try to push the touch cabins considering the lower costs starting in design and going all the way to warranty on the back end, it makes sense if you can get away with it and that's really the crux of it. What my experience is telling me that they will add a few physical buttons because they're not an Apple or Tesla who can tell their customers they should like whatever they shovel and get away with it.
I've been wrong before and it could be I am now. We'll see.