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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

d4rknusw1ld ,

So I can’t do the wash without buying a subscription for it to play Sirius XM? Like wtf is going on. This corpo greed shit has to stop. I hope every single union walks out of the job with these actors and writers. We need to bring power back to the worker a bit.

vic_rattlehead ,

I don’t understand the mindset of people who tolerate ads. No way I’m ever hooking up a smart tv to my network!

SnepKayz ,

Most smart products are security nightmares, too. Smart TVs, refridgerators, thermometers, all of them have OS’s that arent regularly updated, dont give the user any way to peek into the system, (you get a virus on your computer, and you generally know pretty quick) and usually lack the security features that your phone or PC may have. They’re easy points for your network to be compromised.

The Internet of Things is more like the Internet of Shit.

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.

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.

doctortofu ,
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Open your fridge once per day before the door locks with our SmartHome Basic tier. You can enjoy up to five door openings per day with SmartHome Premium, or choose SmartHome Ultimate for unlimited door openings, ability to adjust the temperature AND the light turning on automatically when you open the door! Act now to get a 10% discount for the first three months!

Rozz ,

Screw you for putting that nonsense out into the world

Pika ,

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

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.

Wolfen ,

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

MeanEYE ,
@MeanEYE@lemmy.world avatar

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 ,
@MeanEYE@lemmy.world avatar

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.

Jimmycrackcrack ,

Hard pass

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.

sndrtj ,

Sigh. Our latest TV is an LG precisely because LG did not have ads in its OS whereas its main competitors do. Once they introduce ads, they’ll have completely lost me as a potential repeat customer.

Guess our next TV will just be a large monitor, with no “smart” shenanigans whatsoever.

bobs_monkey ,

I’d rather have a dedicated box and a dumb tv, the hardware rarely keeps pace than a box

rm_dash_r_star ,
@rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee avatar

Exactly, I’ll be using a big monitor with an HTPC. These “smart” TVs are just horrific anymore with their ads and subs and everything else that’s a money grab. I don’t need any of that garbage.

Right now I have an older TV without a smart OS. It’s hooked up to an AV amp and a couple TV boxes. I dread replacing my TV because of the crappy operating systems they all have now. I’ll have to find a big monitor if I can even find something like that for a decent price, don’t know, haven’t looked.

ikidd ,
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

Plug a Raspberry Pi with LibreElec into the HDMI port of any smart tv and never use the OS or connect it to wifi. I can’t fathom why people use the ad-ridden trash these TVs ship with.

bdonvr ,

Good luck. They don’t really make non-smart TVs anymore.

But I just picked up a Sony and never connect it to the internet after updating the firmware. I have an Apple TV box for an interface. I don’t need a non-upgradable streaming stick built into my TV thanks

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.

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

TwilightVulpine ,

*devolving

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

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.

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