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.
@hamatti
I just had to buy a new microwave.
The amount of 'Works with Alexa' type things I was being marketed at, absolutely insane. I have to physically go to the microwave to take things out and put things in, why in god's name would I want it on my network?
A dishwasher, washing machine, etc? Come on now.
I do think there's probably some light use case for some 'cool fun hacking' stuff...but that would be niche, and I'd never want it to go out of home network.
Juhis
Oggie