Tesla

Tesla is a company founded in 2003 and taken over by Elon Musk between then and 2008. Elon Musk has taken the company in radical directions since and started on a foot of trying to follow in Apple's, from a consumer protection standpoint, controversial steps with things like requiring subscriptions or just flat-out being a Tesla technician to fix 2012's Model S, and then going beyond that and truly waging war on consumers, whether it's the continued denial of adding Apple Carplay or Android Auto to their vehicles, putting an expiry date on their cars and leaving people woefully at the whims of Elon Musk choosing what can and can't be done with their vehicles; or making a $100,000 "utility" vehicle whose warranty is void by a simple carwash.

Tesla was early in holding functionality hostage that the car owner had already bought and paid for, when Tesla decided to "offer an acceleration boost" that made the car accelerate faster once the "acceleration boost" software change was bought.