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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

Jimmycrackcrack ,

Hard pass

snor10 ,

This is fucking dystopian…

MossBear ,

I have an LG monitor, but never again. This is absurd. If money is all they understand then I hope they have a rude awakening on account of this.

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    RustyWizard ,

    Nah, smart TV with media box. You get the ad adjusted price, you merely don’t hook it up to the Internet.

    Nioxic ,

    What is “media box”?

    RustyWizard ,

    Chromecast, Kodi, Roku, Apple TV, Nvidia shield, fire TV, etc.

    eleitl ,

    Fire TV firmware also just gets worse and worse with each new version. Netflix app also follows suit.

    RustyWizard ,

    Does it? I’ve never had one. I have a Kodi box and a Chromecast. I’ll be sure to avoid the fire brand, then.

    eleitl ,

    The one saving grace is that it’s cheap and you can install Kodi on it.

    AA5B ,

    I have a Fire Stick and a newer Vizio TV. For a while I could tell Alexa to turn in the TV: the Fire Stick would turn on, then use HDMI-CEC to turn on the TV and select its input. Worked great and I didn’t have to deal with Vizio

    Then at some point Alexa started controlling the TV itself instead. Now I have to choose whether to deal with Vizio or to do more clicks to get to my streaming device. I really need to figure out how to get the original configuration back

    LiquorFan ,

    I’m never buying a “smart” anything, aside from phones. I put up with Android and it already feels like too much.

    RustyWizard ,

    By all means. But “smart” TVs come at a discount because they believe they’ll have opportunities to make revenue off of those features. However, if you prevent the thing from connecting to the Internet then you get the best of both worlds. Cheaper and ad free.

    d0m ,

    You don’t get any dumb TVs in my country anymore. I’d assume its the same everywhere else unless you’re going back a minimum 5 years of tech evolution, which might not be all too bad.

    phoneymouse ,

    For just a low low price of $15.99/month you can use the freezer functionality to keep things really cold! Or, you can use our free ad tier where the freezer only unlocks after you watch a 60 second ad.

    irkli ,
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    Right! If you don’t upgrade service periodically the freezer temperature goes up by one degree a month. It’s for your convenience!

    XTornado ,

    Nice a free simulation of the global warming.

    tr35y7 ,

    I dread replacing my 15 year old TV, i need dem SCARTS

    rmuk ,

    Oh, SCART. We hardly knew ye. Truly France’s greatest gift to the world.

    Wolfen ,

    Great. Gonna have to get rid of my LG oled now huh?

    MeanEYE ,
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    Just castrate its access to internet. Initially you can full block it, in time people will figure out which domains need to be blocked. If they can’t upgrade your firmware, they can’t install these new features.

    bill ,

    I suspect they’ll include cellular radios in the near future so the appliance does not depend on the “consumer” to provide data access.

    ZC3rr0r ,

    With a cellular data subscription that we will then be required to pay a monthly fee for, to make sure the TV continues to work. You didn’t think they’d be giving this away for free, right?

    MeanEYE ,
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    We’ll see. I think they will use the route of least resistance. But subscription based services are here to stay.

    MeanEYE ,
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    That is unlikely to happen as it would require contract with local providers, expensive GSM hardware, etc. Luckily at the moment they still don’t know just how much they can push, so they are testing the waters by dipping fingers in it.

    Wolfen ,

    I may be lucky. I am an expat, and I bought mine in China. Now I am in Malaysia. So I may not have this issue. But your points are likely true.

    tomkatt ,

    After seeing this post and the article, I just blocked my LG C1 from WAN at my router. LAN still available for automation purposes, but fuck letting that thing out to the internet now.

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    MeanEYE ,
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    Block their access to internet and problem solved.

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    MeanEYE ,
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    Ouch then. Already a slave.

    Mdotaut801 ,

    BUT HOW WILL HE SURVIVE WITHOUT THE ALERTS ON HIS PHONE TELLING HIM HIS WIFE’S BOYFRIEND’S LAUNDRY IS DONE?! We don’t want Craig smelling all mildewy whilst digging out this dudes wife.

    ChemicalSlippers ,

    “Also, I depend on phone notifications so I don’t forget about the load.”

    You know you can set alarms on your phone to remember to check on stuff.

    Pika ,

    This post alone just told me that I am never buying an LG washer or dryer, that is fucking stupid. you can:t change the settings without being connected to the internet? Yea hard pass

    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.

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

    Regnil ,

    Please don’t give them more ideas

    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 ,
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    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.

    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.

    TwilightVulpine ,

    *devolving

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

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