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Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges (arstechnica.com)

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Some Samsung smart fridges stopped working on Tuesday due to a firmware update.

Korean outlets were the first to report the problems, which affect Samsung’s Bespoke AI line of fridges. Star News Korea, per a Google-provided translation, said that most of the affected devices were four-door fridges from 2024 or later.

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 23 hours ago

The reason is that companies when they make "smart" products throw everything and the kitchen sink into it in order to justify the higher price of that version of their product - their remote control app needs to look like it does lots of things so that it feels like it's actually worth it, hence it's filled with needless crap just to make it look feature-rich.

It's a business and marketing reason rather than a technical or user requirements reason.