This attitude has always perplexed me. I don't see people complaining
about clothes washers so they don't have to wash everything by hand, or
clothes dryers so they don't have to hang their clothes on a clothes
line, or dishwashers so they don't have to wash their dishes by hand, or
TV remotes so they don't have to get up and change the channel when
they're channel surfing and so on. Where do you draw the line when
you're talking about convenience? I'd love a smart thermostat so I can
adjust the temperature from anywhere or a smart washer/dryer combination
so I can check on the status of my laundry without having to run
downstairs and so on.
I get that someone may not appreciate or want such smart features, but I
just don't get people who think that just because they don't like a
certain feature it therefore must be stupid or worthless to everyone.
I'm just not that unimaginative or arrogant myself.
This article points out some serious issues with smart appliances.
Hopefully the smart appliance companies are listening and addressing
these issues. These issues, as the article points out though, doesn't
mean that smart appliances aren't worthwhile.
On 1/23/19 1:59 PM, Mary Otten wrote:
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.
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On Jan 23, 2019, at 11:21 AM, Cristóbal Muñoz <[email protected]
<mailto:[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
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