Yep, hand power tools are another perfect case. We're just vigorously agreeing with one another now, but I would really like to see the economics behind e.g. sm

Yep, hand power tools are another perfect case. We're just vigorously agreeing with one another now, but I would really like to see the economics behind e.g. smart washing machines. I mean, it's not like Samsung just likes violating their customers' privacy for the hell of it -- there must be (considerable?) profit in it somewhere. It's just distressing that there increasingly doesn't seem to be a market /at all/ for non-smart appliances. I'll probably never buy a television again, since it seems you can't buy a decent non-smart panel without crossing into the enterprise (and adding an order of magnitude in price). And I'm not alone! How is there not a single manufacturer making a single modern non-smart LCD TV? Hell, call it the "HNTV" and expect to sell no more than...20,000? At 200€ in margin that's a 4m€ product line, surely worth throwing off given that the R&D is just removing hardware from an existing model?