If you buy a smart fridge you're probably the kind of person who thinks this is cool tbf.
It's not like smart fridges ever became a norm like smart TVs.
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Then just don't connect your damn fridge to the interwebs.
I'm really struggling to understand what's the point of a "smart" appliance. And these moves don't make my doubts go away, they rather power them up.
What the hell do you need it for? What does it do for you that you can't do by yourself by simply... using your brain for a split second?
One of the selling points for an oven we were looking at was that you could start preheating it while you were driving home from the grocery store.
I'm sure someone thinks it's a good idea to start a hot box up targeting 400° without anyone home. But to me that just screams fire hazard.
Oh, and helpfully it can also do firmware updates over wifi... I don't want my oven to have firmware.
We ended up buying the best "dumb" oven we could find, but pretty much every one of the higher end ones had internet connectivity.
That’s stupid. My oven isn’t internet connected and I can set it to preheat at a certain time. It takes slightly more forethought to use but it does the same thing. Still though, there’s prep work that needs to be done before throwing something in, and the oven is mostly heated by then, so there’s doubly no point.
I'm really struggling to understand what's the point of a "smart" appliance.
Pay $2000 for a smart fridge so you can turn it into a $500 dumb fridge. Art of the deal lol
At least with TVs, the reason they are so cheap now is that you're paying with your data. They create fingerprints of your screen every 10 seconds or so and then sell this information. Essentially, your data subsidises the device.
I imagine, the same happens with smart TVs - but this is just a guess to be hones.
The last "nice"/"fancy" fridge my spouse and I bought was a Samsung. It didn't have a screen because those weren't a thing at the time. But it had the fancy in door ice and water dispenser, freezer on the bottom, double doors on the fridge portion, LED lighting, you get the picture. Anyway, it was something like $2500 on sale.
That fucking fridge never fucking worked right. Had to defrost it manually every couple of months. We made warranty claims on it, had Samsung techs come out and replace the coils, the fan, the control board, the defrost heating element, you name it. Still, like clockwork, the fucking coils would freeze in the back of the refrigerator portion. And we'd have to take all the food out, lay out a bunch of towels, and get a hair dryer and melt all the ice again.
Finally I had enough. My spouse had enough. We went and bought a no frills, no ice maker, freezer on top LG for $700. And have had no problems in the five years since. All that to say, fuck the fancy appliances with Internet access/etc. If you can't make a refrigerator that is able to stay cold without external intervention, then don't make fridges...
TBH anyone who buys Samsung appliances/electronics has done this to themselves. They’ve been notorious for this, for years.
They’re unreliable anyway.
I guess if you get a deal you can neuter them, and sometimes you’re just stuck with it if it comes with the place, but still.
Not my refrigerator.
Rca from 1991 going strong!
My Fridge is maybe only 6 years old, it will die one day... but I swear to god I will never have an appliance in my kitchen or Laundry that advertises to me or buys shit for me.
No one needs this. No one.
Goes well with all the ads and annoyances in their TVs... But seriously, can't wait for Gemini in the fridge, Cortana in the next LG TV update... 😑 Still need Siri in the trash bin and a loo enhanced with Alexa.
Tfw you communicate more with AI than people
I still wonder if this will awaken some people because they're adding way to much bad stuff all at once. Or if it's like with social media, society, dating, freedom... Where people will just accept how it's all become worse and they're miserable now.
I think they're pushing it so hard so we become accustomed to it sooner. And before we know it, we'll have come to accept its place in our lives. Because the bubble can't burst at this point, the fallout will be too great. Not for us, but the poor executives will have lost money
All AI belongs in the trash!
Just redone my kitchen, put a dumb LG fridge/freezer in and deliberately ignored a near identical Samsung one, because the TV I bought five years ago is the last home appliance I will ever own by Samsung, it’s a really simple smart TV, and the the features it has are terrible, has ads in the home screen and keeps asking me to accept new T&Cs that I keep cancelling, no Samsung, I don’t want to change how I use the TV I bought years ago, since that’s when I made the sale contract to own my tv.
Samsung appliances are complete trash.
Samsung was always shit at this.
Just make the phones Samsung and stay out of everything else.
Galaxies? The hardware is fine, but from all my experience with them, I wouldn’t touch their flavor of Android with a 50 foot pole.
That's what I'm saying. I had a galaxy and I litterally downgraded to get rid of the Bixby button.
They used to make good (but expensive) dumb tvs
Well if my ma used to have wheels she have been a bicycle.
Also valid, lol
Godspeed with my traditional refrigerator.
whether you need it
Can someone please explain this part? What possible benefit could there be?
The only REMOTELY possible benefit I could think of is to remind you when something is expired/needs to be cleaned out.
I guarantee it's just to shove tailored ads in your face while you shove food into it
I'm surprised by this considering Samsung puts their shit-tier Tizen OS everywhere.
At this point, I'll rather go to caseohs house, dress up as a steakhouse burrito, lie down on his front porch and get eaten alive than buy anything made by Samsung.