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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

Pika ,

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

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

LillianVS ,
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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.

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

rustydrd ,

FOAAS (Fuck off as a service)

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

dangblingus ,

Already was off LG products, now I am again!

TWeaK ,

*Hugs my old ass Samsung 40" TV

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

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