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Originally Posted by soheil
No, this is not just a SW update, you'll also need updated HW and processors to be able to run it
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I guess 2 or 3 years is an eternity in the car business. It's all about planned obsolescence with these designs rather that true upgradability. Some people always want the latest and greatest so this is just another reason to upgrade. IDrive8 will come and then 3 years later it will be IDrive9. And while IDrive7 is very updatable, BMW will probably abandon updating the platform just like Samsung abandons updating phones older than a few years.
The new design is fricking ugly. Maybe they will sell themes so you can customize how the guage cluster looks (to a degree).
Rob