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LG to offer subscriptions for already purchased appliances and televisions, evolving into a provider for “Home as a Service”

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

Saneless ,

LG PowerPoint:

Problem: People buy our TVs

Real problem: People pay only once for our TVs

Solution: Make them pay money each month for their already purchased TVs

Psychopaths

TWeaK ,

*Hugs my old ass Samsung 40" TV

dangblingus ,

Already was off LG products, now I am again!

spaghettiwestern , (edited )

This little tidbit is left out:

In order to use LG’s smart appliance features you must agree to allow the company to track your precise location 100% of the time via phone app.

I have 2 wifi enabled LG appliances, a refrigerator and a washer. A couple of the smart features are useful such as the end of cycle notification on the washer and a high temperature / door open warning on the fridge. Unfortunately those features don’t work very well and there can be very long delays between an event (such as an end of cycle) and the app notification.

So not only is LG’s implementation poorly done and not very functional, customers are expected to give up any semblance of privacy to even use them.

Fuck that. I disconnected my appliances from wifi and deleted the app.

Paying a monthly charge for the extremely limited smart features on appliances is nuts, even if you didn’t have to allow LG to constantly track your whereabouts. I hope the general public is smart enough to make LG’s subscription service a complete failure.

Saneless ,

My fridge drops its wifi setting constantly. Luckily it’s the dumbest thing ever so I don’t miss it. I only set it up because I was curious wtf a fridge would need to be connect to wifi for

Turns out it loves watching The Bear. Gues it makes sense

rustydrd ,

FOAAS (Fuck off as a service)

Chickerino ,

it’s a shame most people just don’t care, this has been slowly consuming and devouring every single service online and recently offline for the past decade

LillianVS ,
@LillianVS@lemmy.world avatar

I used to like LG products they were often really good quality and lasted a long time.

That’s pretty much over now, not touching new LG products anymore. That’s for sure!

I had an LG CRT and it was as old as me. Never died. It’s a real shame the planet is suffering because of greedy business practices. They put climate change on the consumer but more needs to be done to big corporations to punish this kind of behaviour.

This is why I like dumb products. The smarter they are the more they tac on this kind of crap to them.

techtalkf ,
@techtalkf@lemmy.world avatar

My LG TV from 2017 that’s not getting any updates anymore feels great this time of the year :D

Pika ,

this change will solidify that I will never buy an LG product if they all have that shit

TwilightVulpine ,

*devolving

LillianVS ,
@LillianVS@lemmy.world avatar

“They’re evolving! - just backwards.” - LG probably

ToAllPointsWest ,

Who asked for that?

CADmonkey ,

Shareholders?

TWeaK ,

They likely didn’t even ask, but by law publicly traded companies must pursue profits above all else, on behalf of shareholders.

dustedhands ,

Their gadgets built their fame because they just worked and were built like a tank. My grandparents had their stuff (from Goldstar era) and they still keep chugging.

None of this “as a service” bs will please the lifetime customers.

MeanEYE ,
@MeanEYE@lemmy.world avatar

Just vote with your wallets people. There are others that don’t do this and nothing will turn them around after huge drop in sales. Remember when HP wanted to prevent people from recycling their toner. They had to reverse that decision. Or when Canon decided that your printer must be always online and then they had to teach people how to break their own printers. Lessons learned.

LiveLM ,

Home as a Service

This has triggered a Fight AND Flight response in my brain. I want to smash everything with a mallet then run to the mountains.
I hate “as a Service” so much!

Venomnik0 ,
@Venomnik0@lemmy.world avatar

Soon we’ll have breathing “as a service”.

Regnil ,

Please don’t give them more ideas

DogMuffins ,

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 ,

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

DickFiasco ,

Until they region-lock your dryer.

pinkdrunkenelephants ,

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

DickFiasco ,

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

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