LG to offer subscriptions for appliances and televisions
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Subscription fatigue is a thing and regulators are circling, but Korean giant reckons you're ready to cough up after buying hardware

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

  • jpeps@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    LG has already offered a taste of its intentions: in 2022 it revealed a scheme called “Evolving Appliances For You" that promised software upgrades to home appliances. The company offered the example of a family that moves to a different home, and different climate, and upgrades its clothes drier with routines suited to local conditions.

    The entrance to subscription media comprises part of what CEO William Cho described on Wednesday as a transformation for LG to a “smart life solutions company,” a goal he’s hoping to hit by 2030.

    Unsurprisingly sounding useless. Don’t most people leave their white goods when they move house anyway? Seems like a huge pain to have to transfer all these accounts around for my appliances.

    7 years to drop anything LG from your house.

    • Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      The company offered the example of a family that moves to a different home, and different climate, and upgrades its clothes drier with routines suited to local conditions.

      A problem absolutely no one is trying to solve or needs solved. What a reach.