cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1539142
LG to offer subscriptions for already purchased appliances and televisions, evolving into a provider for “Home as a Service”::Subscription fatigue is a thing and regulators are circling, but Korean giant reckons you’re ready to cough up after buying hardware
A lot of these companies don’t realize they’re opening the market for upstarts willing to upseat them with better business models.
Only fear is the manipulation in the business world making this difficult for new ideas.
Given that they recently updated my LGTV to have more ads with no way to disable them, well… not surprised.
I love my LG TVs but they have never once been connected to the internet.
Got a new LG TV for Christmas, and never once put it online. Smart TVs always remain dumb in my house, and I just use a Chromecast with Google TV. Never had a single ad and it works just fine displaying what the Chromecast shows
I guess it comes down to who I want tracking me, no? I lack a Google account.
I mean, there’s always the more private option of a Raspberry Pi or similar as a streaming box that you put Kodi or Jellyfin on.
Always isolate networked functionality for any “smart” device however you can. They will never update with better features. Only enshittify things.
I use an NVIDIA shield pro with a custom launcher as my dedicated stream box so neither Google nor NVIDIA can make it worse as time goes forward.
Soon we are going to see the toilet subscription model. You get 1 flush per day for free. After that, it’s 1.99 per flush. If you subscribe to Lite tier of service it goes to 3! 🤬
You can get a free flush for reciting the Charmin jingle*
*Limited time offer, limit one per household
You get an extra flush courtesy of the hegetsus.com jesus campaign if you watch the full ad.
Straight out of Cyberpunk Edgerunners.
Where everyone else saw a corporate dystopia, LG saw profit.
This is so ridiculous. Continual growth just can’t work.