The thriving black market of John Deere tractor hacking
1. John Deere is right and protecting themselves and trying to be risk averse.<p>2. The farmers are rightfully indignant about being locked out of their own machines. Farmers are risk averse too.<p>Never the twain shall meet.<p>It's the tech and scale that is wrong.<p>The field of ag isn't suitable because of the nature of work especially during harvest.<p>Maybe all smart machines should only be leased out. It is logical but that would never sit well with farmers because that is trusting someone who doesn't understand farming.<p>'Smart farm machinery' isn't useful unless it can be repaired by 'the cloud'(as it were).<p>Your life will/can go on without your iPhone. Without farm machinery(800-1000 acres is a 'small farm'), you are toast. The farm is toast. Income is toast.<p>Although, I wonder how farm insurance treats smart machines.<p>Smart farming machinery isn't really all that smart. Yet.