Call me crazy, but I like my fridge to keep food cold.
And that’s it … that’s all I want it to do … ever.
And that’s it … that’s all I want it to do … ever.
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If You Thought Ads in Apple Maps Was Bad, Samsung is Putting Ads on $1,900+ Refrigerators
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I am sure that the people who chose this refrigerator because it had a screen are relieved knowing that it would have cost even more had there been a version that promised no ads.
Yeah but if you are going to do that why spend $1,999 on a "Smart Refrigerator" that is designed around a family hub with networking features if you are just going to circumvent its main purpose. Might as well just buy a "normal" or "dumb" refrigerator for a lot less money.
Meanwhile my parents refrigerator is still going strong since the 70’s 
Tech peaked in 2012 and then everything since then has made everything worse.
The more expensive ones let you take a video you are watching on your TV or tablet in the family room and move it to the screen on the fridge in the kitchen. So for example if you are watching a game, and need to go into the kitchen to make a snack you can instantly move the game off your TV in the living room and into the kitchen.
It's overkill for my tastes, but I have been to friends homes who have these type of smart fridges and it can be cool if you are into that sort of thing.
My GE Fridge has been serving me ads for 4 years and it doesn't even have a screen. It's a smart appliance and I was able to connect it to the Wi-Fi. The useful tasks I can do over Wi-Fi are... not much. I can adjust the temperature, which I have done exactly never.
But it uses its Wi-Fi connection to alert GE about my water quality and has GE send me emails and postcards about water filters all the time. I regret connecting the fridge to wi-fi (but at the same time, I'm not going to waste the effort kicking it back off the wi-fi... easier to just block the email address that sends the ads...)
But it uses its Wi-Fi connection to alert GE about my water quality and has GE send me emails and postcards about water filters all the time. I regret connecting the fridge to wi-fi (but at the same time, I'm not going to waste the effort kicking it back off the wi-fi... easier to just block the email address that sends the ads...)
If it's like their Q series TV's it's bricked until it is connected and phones home. When I set up my Q50 it couldn't even use WPA and my network needed to be degraded to WEP for the install.
fOS26 Liquid Ice (and slide-to-unlock doors).
You: Siri, is there milk in the fridge?
She: I found this on the web.
It is a fridge first and foremost. It’s not a cheap home hub thingy with a screen to blast you with promotional messages every 15 min. IMO fridge (and all other appliances for that matter) should never be connected to the internet ever, but that ship has sailed a long time ago.
This is what I’m worried about for all these internet appliances: you can’t use it unless it is connected to the internet. Why? I just want to use my fridge.
Not to mention how old and insecure WEP is as wifi encryption protocol.
The only reason these exist is because people actually buy them. Sad but true. The worst part? “AI vision” to keep track of what’s inside instead of, you know, opening the door.
That’s exactly right. Consumers have more power than they want to believe. If people find ads on appliances and the IoT… they should just refuse to buy them. Believe me, com panies don’t like losing money. How long did it take Samsung to cancel the Galaxy S25 Edge?
Nobody is leaving Apple, even if people found out they were doing some pretty shady stuff. They can pretty much do what they like at the moment.
Also, re fridge, just buy a Miele at that price point.
I’d laugh but I have an Amazon Echo screen in my house that shows me ads. Of course I’m about to take a baseball bat to that damned thing.
The fridge is already expensive even without the ads. I'm not sure ads have something to do with the price of the product itself. It's because they have smart OS system in which they could insert some ads, so they did.
Do you think LG 97" 4K OLED TV becomes cheaper because it has some ads on its webOS system? That's what I thought.