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LG to offer subscriptions for already purchased appliances and televisions, evolving into a provider for “Home as a Service” (www.theregister.com)

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LG to offer subscriptions for already purchased appliances and televisions, evolving into a provider for “Home as a Service”::Subscription fatigue is a thing and regulators are circling, but Korean giant reckons you're ready to cough up after buying hardware

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For the time being, at least, commercial-grade appliances tend to either not have any sort of network or "smart" functionality, or such functionality is actually productive and not a continued money grab from manufacturers.

But there is a slow march toward making everything "smart", even in the commercial kitchen, and from there it's a quick jump to "sorry, your subscription has lapsed. To enable broil functionality, update your credit card info."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unauthorized Bread is a short story/novella by Cory Doctorow that features subscription based appliances. It's the natural extrapolation of what you said. Good read. It's out there for free without much effort.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nice, I'll add it to the List. It may be 10 years before I get to it, but it's on the list!