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While I'm sure they're cutting build quality to make them cheaper, the "unnecessary tech" isn't some cutting edge high tech stuff requiring high R&D costs that would make them "astronomically expensive"
If they wanted to they could literally replicate everything they're doing with a 60$ raspberry pi and just interface it with the existing controller boards and call it a day.
Even this article about the fridge is just an (admittedly fairly large screen) tablet.
The Samsung FamilyHub fridge does indeed basically have an overgrown tablet duct taped to the door. It runs Samsung's Tizen operating system, which you may recall was at one point going to be the Next Big Thing and a competitor to Android and iOS. Obviously that didn't happen, so now it's relegated to refrigerators.
Honestly, my theory is that Samsung is just pulling a sunk cost fallacy move and was desperate to put Tizen in something -- anything -- to justify its development.
It's terrible. All the hardware is also located inside the upper right door, and it dumps all of its waste heat out the back of the door into the refrigerator compartment. The design is breathtakingly stupid.
And here I thought their shitty TVs were breathtakingly stupid and over complicated (seriously there are like 6 different fucking menu screens in different places, and best of luck remembering which one you need for something stupid simple like sleep timer..)
Then again, I’ve been avoiding Samsung since the tv incident 10 years ago.. apparently for the best..
When their refrigerators have AI that scans everything you put into the refrigerator and then makes suggestions to you without asking first and table screen that hardly work and go obsolete in a year, yeah, I call that unnecessary tech. No other refrigerator does that.
That's not unnecessary, just to you it is, and the execution is flawed and terrible (No consent, hardly working screen) I for one would love a feature that kept track of my groceries for me because I'm absolutely terrible at manual lists and such.
Just because "no other refrigerator does that" doesn't automatically make it unnecessary either. That's what innovation is supposed to be.