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If You Thought Ads in Apple Maps Was Bad, Samsung is Putting Ads on $1,900+ Refrigerators
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So does this mean that the refrigerator is free! In that case, it might not be such a bad deal as these new refrigerators only seem to last a few years.
I don’t really like this headline, looks like classic Samsung-bashing.
I mean yeah they have ads and often preinstalled crappy apps on their flagship phones, the same apps 99% of people are gonna use anyway, but after all, is experience worse?
People here are obsessed with folding displays and VR skigoogles, and what’s so bad in a screen integrated to a fridge? This is freaking cool you know, having a huge web browser right on your fridge instead of s***ton of useless magnets.
Wanna find a quick cookie recipe instead of taking your teeny-weeny smartphone out of pocket? Use a fridge!
I do agree it is not a main function of a fridge, but why not?
This is probably our future with everything connected, impossible to escape. We will either get used or be left with old tech. And I mean it is not so impossible to live with old fridges, these beasts often work for 20+ years. Thus 2k$ doesn’t seem like a huge investment.
Oh, btw. How long will your iPhone for 2k$ work before becoming slow and obsolete? Most people will replace it in 3 years because it is no more “shiny and cool”.
I don’t like ads too but if there is not much choice, so be it I guess… Apple is doing it for ages already and was even suspected in mining data for advertisers thru Facetime back in the days. It just feels not that nice that people these days no more interested in “jailbreaking” and so we no more have custom firmware to customize whatever we want, including full adblocking. Unfortunately we are gonna have these ads because majority of people seem to not care…
I mean yeah they have ads and often preinstalled crappy apps on their flagship phones, the same apps 99% of people are gonna use anyway, but after all, is experience worse?
People here are obsessed with folding displays and VR skigoogles, and what’s so bad in a screen integrated to a fridge? This is freaking cool you know, having a huge web browser right on your fridge instead of s***ton of useless magnets.
Wanna find a quick cookie recipe instead of taking your teeny-weeny smartphone out of pocket? Use a fridge!
I do agree it is not a main function of a fridge, but why not?
This is probably our future with everything connected, impossible to escape. We will either get used or be left with old tech. And I mean it is not so impossible to live with old fridges, these beasts often work for 20+ years. Thus 2k$ doesn’t seem like a huge investment.
Oh, btw. How long will your iPhone for 2k$ work before becoming slow and obsolete? Most people will replace it in 3 years because it is no more “shiny and cool”.
I don’t like ads too but if there is not much choice, so be it I guess… Apple is doing it for ages already and was even suspected in mining data for advertisers thru Facetime back in the days. It just feels not that nice that people these days no more interested in “jailbreaking” and so we no more have custom firmware to customize whatever we want, including full adblocking. Unfortunately we are gonna have these ads because majority of people seem to not care…
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While I tend to agree with this in the cell phone space, I do have to say that numerous repair folks I've spoken with have said the Samsung fridges are objectively poor quality and just "so so" reliability.
They are made to be flashy and used for 5-8 years before something goes wrong that is on par (price wise) with "maybe we should just get a new fridge."
Totally agree buying a product and having the company later force ads into your kitchen is disrespectful and borderline predatory. But consumers also need to understand the trade-off, when you buy connected tech, this is exactly how those companies operate. It’s immoral, yes but predictable. If we keep buying it, we’re signaling it’s acceptable. The onus is on the consumer to stop feeding the model.
Wow, that’s pretty bad. I myself have only one Samsung fridge, it is not connected to anything and was purchased 6 years ago, seems to keep working great.
But I do have experience with their washing machines and microwaves, and those are very bad, tend to break beyond repairability in less than 4 years
We have peaked as a society. This is ridiculous! Just give me one of those big yellow fridges from the 80's that still runs beautifully to this day..
or just buy a normal ridge without lcd
Infinite growth doesn’t exist with limited resources and that is the problem with the current system. And because of this we get worse products so they can show they are growing.
A toaster only compatible with certain brands.
Electric toothbrushes that only work with a single toothpaste.
Ads on all sides of streets and highways that blind you at night and would literally have to distract you from driving to do their job.
Oh wait…
But yeah, we’re right at the beginning of a dystopian sci-fi novel.
Is there anyplace left that I can go, or anything left that I can do, where I don't have to deal with a $%@%$$ advertisement? Hey, I can still sleep without being presented with an ad. But then again, maybe they will find out how to place ads in our dreams, without having to pay somebody extra money to turn them off.
Or in the living room or on the TV. Or have a speaker listen to you all the time. Nobody would buy that.
And the cost for ads will vary by time of day -- lunch and dinnertime ads will get a premium!
Be a billboard in your house to sell ADs onto, as well as track and monetize any data you give it.
Just one more way for Samsung to earn some cold cash from their customers. Washers and dryers are next so that they can launder the money!
Its a difference if I just can download a new app to avoid ads or have ad billboards in my home 24/7.
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This, along with the "subscription model" is making everything worse
Show a picture of yourself as you head to the fridge for that midnight snack! People think that McDonald's could reap from this? Just think about NutriSystem!
A dongle would be fine. After less than two of years use, my brand new 2017 Samsung fridge required the following just to get ice out:
- An ice scraper.
- Bowls of hot water.
- A Philips screwdriver to completely disassemble the icemaker.
- A 24 inch long flat-blade screwdriver to reach in the back and dislodge chunks of ice on an ad-hoc basis.
- A hair dryer for quick thaws to get the perpetually-frozen mechanism going.
- Towels to mop up the drips.
- Hours to scour YouTube and other websites to find many other unhappy owners offering hints and tips just to get ice.
- An hour or so to disassemble, dry out and reassemble the ice maker every couple of months.
- More hours to find potential replacement parts - only to decide good money was going after bad.
- Duct tape to fix an ice bin that broke because it spent most of its time frozen solid and impossible to move.
- A tub in the garage to collect random plastic and metal pieces that broke off regularly. (The whole fridge lives in the garage now).
- An even bigger container to hold mine (and everyone else’s) disgust at Samsungs refusal to acknowledge their design issue for years. Google it.
Today, Samsung could invent a fridge that displayed tonight’s lottery numbers and I’d not be interested.