The thriving black market of John Deere tractor hacking
1. John Deere is right and protecting themselves and trying to be risk averse.2. The farmers are rightfully indignant about being locked out of their own machines. Farmers are risk averse too.Never the twain shall meet.It's the tech and scale that is wrong.The field of ag isn't suitable because of the nature of work especially during harvest.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.'Smart farm machinery' isn't useful unless it can be repaired by 'the cloud'(as it were).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.Although, I wonder how farm insurance treats smart machines.Smart farming machinery isn't really all that smart. Yet.