When the company calls their home appliances "smart", what I hear is:
- they spent money on features I don't care about
- those features will be worse than standalone devices but will drive them out of market (looking at you TVs)
- the appliance is more likely to break
- my data is likely being sold to advertisers
- when the company loses interest in it and cut support, I will need to buy a new device
So no, I don't want "smart" home appliances.
When the company calls their home appliances "smart", what I hear is:
- they spent money on features I don't care about
- those features will be worse than standalone devices but will drive them out of market (looking at you TVs)
- the appliance is more likely to break
- my data is likely being sold to advertisers
- when the company loses interest in it and cut support, I will need to buy a new device
I not only don't want "smart" appliances, I don't want them in a "smart" home. The same characteristics apply. I'm tired of my "smart" home systems breaking down, and I certainly don't want them spying on me.
Write that blog post, even if someone else has written about a topic before.
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My sister's fridge is dumb, but has an icemaker. It doesn't work well (freezes up, in the literal sense).
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I have given up trying to persuade my other to *not* leave automatic updates on, for our android TV.
As a result, it just gets slower, and slower, and slower, and now some apps are crashing randomly.
I think I might accidentally oh my how did that happen reset it to factory defaults some day soon ...
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I not only don't want "smart" appliances, I don't want them in a "smart" home. The same characteristics apply. I'm tired of my "smart" home systems breaking down, and I certainly don't want them spying on me.