Still better than my old LG washer-dryer which would sound an alarm when it had finished, only the door would remain locked for the next minute or so afterwards

Still better than my old LG washer-dryer which would sound an alarm when it had finished, only the door would remain locked for the next minute or so afterwards. So you'd go to empty it, realise that it was still locked despite only being on a wash cycle, wander off to do something else and forget about it, then remember the next day that you had washing sitting in the machine. By this time it smells stale and you have to wash it again. So you set a timer slightly longer than the wash cycle to remind you to take out the washing. Success! Only then you load another pile of clothes and forget to set another timer. Fuuuuu... Purchased a Bosch washer-dryer after the LG decided it no longer wanted to pump water out of the machine, eventually flooding our hallway. The Bosch works nicely - you can open it when the alarm sounds! - but you have to reset the cycle toggle for every new load (basically set it to off then on again) otherwise it just beeps at you and won't start the cycle. If we can buy $50 touch-screen smart phones with a fully fledged OS in the supermarket, why can't we bolt similar devices to dumb microwaves, washers etc to make them smarter? I mean, why do I have to dig out a manual to figure out what the fuck error D7 means?