I couldn’t agree with you more. I think the whole Smart appliance thing is incredibly over sold. I mean really. A smart refrigerator? Who really needs that? The description of what you could do with that Samsung refrigerator just made me scratch my head and wonderment as to why anybody would spend all that money for stuff that is so not necessary.
The only thing that interests me about smart appliances is possible Accessibility. Because so many appliances come with inaccessible interfaces that can’t be modified easily with dots or braille, like you used to be able to do with older appliances, the ability to have an app on your phone, say, that would let you control a device is kind of attractive. Maybe even necessary. When our washer died several years ago, I went looking for one that I could use. I was lucky to find something still had a kind of a pointer on the dial, so I could put labels in strategic places. I still can’t do everything that you were supposed to be able to do with this washer or the dryer. But it’s good enough. But I saw a lot of machines that werenot usable at all by a blind person because they could not be modified to make controlling and accessible. I don’t imagine that trend is changing. And that’s a problem. I hope I don’t ever end up having to buy something with a whole bunch of stupid features I don’t need the cost more that I want to spend just because I need accessibility to the basic functionality. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 23, 2019, at 11:21 AM, Cristóbal Muñoz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Interesting article I thought I’d post. > I know the topics of things like the Instant Pot and other smart > appliances/devices around the house have come up before and the concern about > whether they’d still be accessible after X period of time. I’m perfectly > happy with my instant pot Bluetooth and as a pressure cooker, I expect it to > last a good long while. Accessibility or the maintenance of the app though… > that’s a separate issue. IN general, outside of the IP, Ring video doorbell > and a Bluetooth kitchen scale, our home really isn’t smart. We do have a 4K > TV with some built in apps, but for convenience, the wife just has a hacked > Fire TV and Apple TV plugged into it. We don’t’ even use the apps included in > our Dish Hopper III. > Our fridge, washer and drier are around 14 years old now and while the > washer’s needed some YouTube intervention a couple of times, they’re still > going strong. > I wasn’t really keen on upgrading to smart appliances in general and the > realities that this article points out doesn’t really do anything to make me > reassess my opinion. > The WSJ put out a similar article having to do with smart TVs a few months > back and it was more or less the same thing. Good luck trying to keep that > super expensive smart TV smart. > I don’t mind spending 30 or 50 or maybe 100 or 200 dollars on a smart device, > but if you’re talking close to $1000 and more, smart’s nice and all, but at > that point, give me longevity and reliability. > > https://www.howtogeek.com/401635/your-expensive-smart-appliance-may-not-last-a-decade/ > > Cristóbal > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
