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LG to offer subscriptions for already purchased appliances and televisions, evolving into a provider for “Home as a Service” (www.theregister.com)

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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

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[–] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

in 2022 it revealed a scheme called “Evolving Appliances For You" that promised software upgrades to home appliances. The company offered the example of a family that moves to a different home, and different climate, and upgrades its clothes drier with routines suited to local conditions.

This is fucking hilarious. Nobody, and I really do mean nobody, actually wants a dryer that you need to pay a subscription fee for just in case one day you move house so it can try to reconfigure itself.

This and this article might be a little more concise.

It sounds like more ads for smart tvs, and a subscription service for extra features for smart appliances - like a chatbot for your fridge or dishwasher or something.

It doesn't necessarily sound evil to me it just sounds completely retarded. I'm all about tech making life easier but it's genuinely hard to imagine why I would want a smart dishwasher. I want a dumbass dishwasher who's actions are solely determined by the 3 buttons on it.

It will be interesting to see how the market responds to this. It's hard to imagine that really anyone will be seduced by the idea of a "smart" home with these sorts of intangible benefits.

[–] Hackerman_uwu@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, as someone who moves between Africa and Finland with my tumble dryer twice a month this will be a godsend.

[–] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Until they region-lock your dryer.

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Wait until they program the devices to lock down until you pay a fee to turn them on.

[–] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

It's a solution in search of a problem. May as well start selling home appliance NFTs while they're at it.