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Originally Posted by ZeusHorkios
The biggest con of the iD7 system that I can think of is that BMW will most likely stop developing and improving it's software which will in turn make the software outdated in 2-3 years.
With iD8, BMW will keep on developing and improving the software in that time period and make it more mature.
And if they listen to customer feedback, they can add more climate control shortcuts (fan speed, air vent configuration, seat warming, etc) to the bottom of the screen than just temperature and the climate control menu shortcut and that should address 90% of the complaints about the iD8 climate control.
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ID7 is still fairly new and being installed in most BMW's including their most expensive models - support and updates aren't going away anytime soon.
Per Tech Crunch's interview with Frank Weber, BMW's Head of ID Development:
"As for current cars with the iDrive 7, Weber noted that those cars will get some of the features from iDrive 8 that can be ported back to it — and iDrive 7 will continue to get updates as well.
'It's a little bit like in the smartphone world," Weber said. "All the things — and the good and interesting new things from iD8 that can be transferred to iD7, iD7 we'll get those upgrades. But like a particular function on a phone, not all of them can be transferred back to the previous generation. So most of it can be transferred, but not all of them. But certainly, we will continue to work on updating the previous generation. We won't stop that.'"
Since someone here earlier compared this to Iphones - the iPhone 6S through the iPhone 13 still gets iOS 15.x updates. When iOS 16 launches it will still be compatible with the iPhone 8 through current gen. Im not the least bit concerned with ID7's future support.