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

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

  • sndrtj@feddit.nlEnglish
    51·
    1 year ago

    Sigh. Our latest TV is an LG precisely because LG did not have ads in its OS whereas its main competitors do. Once they introduce ads, they’ll have completely lost me as a potential repeat customer.

    Guess our next TV will just be a large monitor, with no “smart” shenanigans whatsoever.

    • bobs_monkey@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’d rather have a dedicated box and a dumb tv, the hardware rarely keeps pace than a box

    • Mkengine@feddit.deEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Why even use the LG OS? I always used a fire tv stick and now nvidia shield (I don’t see ads as far as I know), which is much better supported as an Android OS instead if an LG OS.