>No manufacturer wants this. They don't want to sell you updated internals, they want to sell you a new product. Not to mention no one wants to pay the Intel-ta

>No manufacturer wants this. They don't want to sell you updated internals, they want to sell you a new product. Not to mention no one wants to pay the Intel-tax for their embedded processors. You're right on both points, but as a discriminating consumer I will prefer dumb devices to smart ones and upgradeable smart devices to static ones simply because it's greener. Unless the fridge refuses to function it's much more likely to get its network connection disabled completely the first time there's an unpatched vulnerability rather than replaced in its entirety.