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Now that cars are like smartphones, we don’t really own them
(www.washingtonpost.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I agree a rental/service economy is good for some things. I think the main complaint here is the way companies manipulate these products for their benefit not for the customer, and often in underhand ways (hence all the privacy issues). That happens with 'owned' products too, but the owner has more control to make of it what they want.