Because people keep their fridges too long. They need to be able to remote brick them when they want you to buy a new one.
Protip: Avoid Samsung when buying appliances
And LG - they are both hot garbage.
This. I worked in appliance sales for years and we constantly had issues with Samsung. Their ice makers are complete garbage.
Yikes! And $4000 is the sale price. It’s $4800 regularly…
I could see my daughter doing this
The worst part is the silly over priced fridges you buy probably won’t even last 10 years anymore. Sure they’re more efficient, but if you have to replace it every 10-15 years, is it really worth it? I’d sooner have a slightly less efficient fridge that I know will last than one that can show me ads and look fancy.
“More efficient”
- has french doors,
- has water dispenser,
- has two seperate frozen zones (ice and freezer)
- has main freezer on bottom
No way this thing is anywhere near efficent.
Those things make it more inefficient?
Having the main freezer on the bottom is insanely inefficient. Hot air rises, and cold air falls. When a freezer is on the top, all of the cold air is generated in that freezer, and then it falls through a channel into the main refrigeration area. It keeps both compartments cold using just one system.
Freezer on the bottom requires either a separate cooling system for the main fridge, or a series of fans that constantly draw cold air upwards, wasting electricity in the process.
Meanwhile, my grandmother had a fridge from the 1960s that still worked fine when she replaced it in 2013.
That’s a lot of money for a fancy box of cold.
Fk SmartHomes TBH, things shouldn´t be so complex just so you can be a tiny bit more lazy.
They don’t even do anything - simple is better.
It’s like that IQ meme:
- 70 IQ: zero smart home devices
- 100 IQ: smart fridge, smart watch, smart TV, smart light, smart toilet, smart potted plant…
- 130 IQ: zero smart home devices
