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Thanks for the heads up! We are in a market for a cook top and it has never occurred to me it was this bad. Are there people who want this "feature" and pay ext

• wholinator2 2y ago
  I'm convinced almost nobody actually wants most of the connectivity, internet of shit things they're stuffing in appliances. But these companies shove this shit in because it makes them more money, then they brand it a "feature" that salespeople can use to differentiate the more expensive and newer models to unsuspecting customers. Basically that its more about there being a "new age connectivity extensibility productivity luxury feature" than exactly what that feature _is_. Then, the manufacturers who have switched to building mostly iot crammed models trick themselves by attributing the change in sales to the specific feature they added (that nobody asked for, wants, or cares about) rather than the fact that that's all they make anymore and thus the only thing people can buy. And some VP makes a sideshow with graphs, gets applause, a nice Bonus and shot at the big wigs job. Some middle manager gets to take credit for "spearheading the development of market fit innovations in productivity and life balance synergy". People keep patting themselves on the back for making up useless bullshit and shoving it down our throats, then interpret their back pats as a signal to continue. That's my theory anyway
  • ericd 2y ago
    Sounds about right, only a couple of their most basic models were available without it, and we really wanted induction with physical knobs, which is apparently a rare combination. So we had to give in on our no-wifi constraint.