LG to offer subscriptions for already purchased appliances and televisions, evolving into a provider for “Home as a Service”
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
https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/13/lg_smart_life_solutions_strategy/Open linkView original on lemm.ee
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Fuck that. I’m about to buy a new fridge, and LG just got taken off the list of possible appliances
If I had known this I probably wouldn't have bought the LG dishwasher. I'm afraid everything is going this way.
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."
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.
Nice, I'll add it to the List. It may be 10 years before I get to it, but it's on the list!
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.