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I really love stuff like this.
These are the kind of things rich people would fawn over and hold others over on about having the latest tech. But then it's like, you see this shit, you realize how better off you are without them.
I feel like stuff like this is always aimed at average people and the data collection is what offsets the price to make it the cheapest option. Only new money would use it to chase trendy things like this. They end up being slight convenience with added work and expectations on the consumer.
High end appliances aimed at real wealth are usually more about how they can be built in to the house design. Rich people will pay more for a thing that makes the house look like a magazine, and will last years.
Why would a rich person want a fridge that tells them they need to buy milk when their actual human assistant does that?
Doubles down too, because within a week the novelty wears off and the rich people don't use it, it's just sitting in the corner, collecting their data, possibly raking in a subscription fee that they forgot about.