cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1539142

LG to offer subscriptions for already purchased appliances and televisions, evolving into a provider for “Home as a Service”::Subscription fatigue is a thing and regulators are circling, but Korean giant reckons you’re ready to cough up after buying hardware

Im just so tired

  • TheFermentalist@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Fuck that. I’m about to buy a new fridge, and LG just got taken off the list of possible appliances

    • WaxiestSteam69@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      If I had known this I probably wouldn’t have bought the LG dishwasher. I’m afraid everything is going this way.

    • arglebargle@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Probably a good idea. The ice maker on mine had been serviced twice and still doesn’t work. And when it did the ice tasted terrible.

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    1 year ago

    For the time being, at least, commercial-grade appliances tend to either not have any sort of network or “smart” functionality, or such functionality is actually productive and not a continued money grab from manufacturers.

    But there is a slow march toward making everything “smart”, even in the commercial kitchen, and from there it’s a quick jump to “sorry, your subscription has lapsed. To enable broil functionality, update your credit card info.”

    • nymwit@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Unauthorized Bread is a short story/novella by Cory Doctorow that features subscription based appliances. It’s the natural extrapolation of what you said. Good read. It’s out there for free without much effort.

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        1 year ago

        Nice, I’ll add it to the List. It may be 10 years before I get to it, but it’s on the list!

  • WaxiestSteam69@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I just bought an LG dishwasher and it has some features that need to he accessed by an app over wifi. I haven’t installed the app nor have I connected the appliance to my home WiFi. I don’t plan to do either.