Originally Posted by
PeteHski
Well that’s totally convinced me now. I thought CUES was merely a logical consolidation of Shimano’s mid-tier mechanical groups, but now I’m convinced it’s a lead up to online subscription configurable electronic drivetrains. That sounds far more likely.
Again, what's to stop them from introducing a subscription model across
all their groupset tiers - including CUES - in the future? In fact, what's to stop them from making a CUES subscription so outrageously exorbitant that consumers (subscribers?) will feel compelled to pay $999/$1,799/$3,199 for 105/Ultegra/Dura-Ace or LX/XT/XTR (respectively) for and get more and better features for just $11.99 more/year?