cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37646129
Source: Reddit post— Private front-end.
Samsung Statement to Android Authority:
Samsung is committed to innovation and enhancing every day value for our home appliance customers. As part of our ongoing efforts to strengthen that value, we are conducting a pilot program to offer promotions and curated advertisements on certain Samsung Family Hub refrigerator models in the U.S. market.
As a part of this pilot program, Family Hub refrigerators in the U.S. will receive an over-the-network (OTN) software update with Terms of Service (T&C) and Privacy Notice (PN). Advertising will appear on certain Family Hub refrigerator Cover Screens. The Cover Screen appears when a Family Hub screen is idle. Ad design format may change depending on Family Hub personalization options for the Cover Screen, and advertising will not appear when Cover Screen displays Art Mode or picture albums.
Advertisements can be dismissed on the Cover Screens where ads are shown, meaning that specific ads will not appear again during the campaign period.
And I am trying to explain to you why your "experience" is very limited insight on a heavily biased sample.
If you sell 500 widgets, some percentage of those customers are going to have problems. If 450 of those widgets are from Innertrode, a majority of that percentage are going to be with Innertrode widgets. That doesn't mean Innertrode makes worse widgets. That just means you, like most people, could do with a primer on statistics.
Yes. Pointing out that (mostly) independent consumer information groups have drawn opposite conclusions to you and pointing out this is a very common phenomena in sales is "irrational". Who needs facts when we have feelings, amirite?
And people wonder why there are so many complaints online about hating sales people.
The reason people say Samsung sucks isn't because they're bad at statistics, it's because they can look at the blatant planned obsolescence.
For example, the "spider arm" on Samsung washers is deliberately made from the wrong metal so it literally disintegrates due to corrosion and breaks into pieces after a few years (i.e. shortly after the warranty ends), even as every single other metal component in the damn thing is made out of stainless steel and remains pristine.
That's not my picture, but that's what happened to my washer. I took it apart and saw for myself. And it's not random bad luck, either; it's designed into the product for it to fail that way.
So that's why when some of us say we know for a fact that Samsung is shit, WE KNOW FOR A FACT that Samsung is shit, and we can demonstrate exactly WHY Samsung is shit. So don't fucking tell us our experience is "limited" and "biased!"
Yeah! Don't fucking tell US our experience is limited and biased!!!!!! snorts angrily
Bought a Samsung SMART combo microwave/grill/convection oven. Has a motorized glass plate. Motor now turns intermittently. Sometimes does not turn at all, during a 20-min bake. ONLY 3yrs OLD. Miss me with that planned obsolescence shit!
Edit:typo
I didn’t read this comment because it’s a bunch of gaslighting bullshit.
And now you’re blocked, because I don’t wanna hear any more of your gaslighting bullshit.
I know what happened to me, I knew what my experience was. If you can’t wrap your head around that, if you have trouble accepting a reality that exists with my experiences, then you really need to speak to a psychiatrist.
And touch some grass
Got it, pointing out common phenomena and referencing a very well established and (mostly) respected consumer information group (Consumer Reports. Would link to the data but I always forget what is and isn't paywalled with them) is "gaslighting"
And everyone who points out an alternative to your conclusions is mentally ill.
(Actually this is more of a worldwide phenomenon but Donald Glover is just too good to not post. And... it was shockingly hard to find an easy to grab image from that song that is not gun violence or way more intentionally minstrel-y than anyone would get without an even longer explanation of the joke than this).