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Yeesh. It's fine for us to admit that things sometimes have flaws which could be improved.

The app not opening without network connectivity just seems like one of those, we can acknowledge that without conceding the whole concept and/or ecosystem.




It isn't the ecosystem, you are not conceding anything.

The app is just an additional extra service, it isn't crucial for anything. All of those things you listed that are affected by the app not working can be looked up the exact same way they could be looked up on any other car, no app needed.

I agree with you overall though, it could be improved, but I am struggling to think of a better solution to this that they could implement, aside from caching the vin number and the software version on the client (which i totally agree with, would be a good solution for that specific issue). The rest of the functions like remote controlling the car from the app obviously won't work with that approach, but that's not a trivial problem to solve (if possible at all), and their current solution seems to be very reasonable (talking about them refreshing certs in the background once in a while).


The app clearly does cache a ton of information locally already. The "must call out to the network" thing is pretty clearly just to simplify the design of the app so they don't have to worry about conditions where the app hasn't authenticated itself and grabbed the latest information from Tesla.




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