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.
If I buy a TV, I want a TV that shows channels and to which I can plug other devices to watch the other stuff.
If I buy speakers, I want to connect whatever I have to them and not risk remote bricking of devices by manufacturer.
@hamatti I'm already at the point that I don't even want my TV to show channels. I just want a big monitor with good image quality and multiple ports to connect my own devices to it.
TV itself has already been killed by offerings via internet. So at this point, I just need a low-power SPC with free software on it that can decode video and I'm good.
I would also be fine with the TV itself running free software. But I doubt this will happen any time soon.
Juhis
Tobias Frisch