LG to offer subscriptions for already purchased appliances and televisions, evolving into a provider for “Home as a Service”
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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
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Great. Gonna have to get rid of my LG oled now huh?
Just castrate its access to internet. Initially you can full block it, in time people will figure out which domains need to be blocked. If they can't upgrade your firmware, they can't install these new features.
I suspect they'll include cellular radios in the near future so the appliance does not depend on the "consumer" to provide data access.
With a cellular data subscription that we will then be required to pay a monthly fee for, to make sure the TV continues to work. You didn't think they'd be giving this away for free, right?
We'll see. I think they will use the route of least resistance. But subscription based services are here to stay.
That is unlikely to happen as it would require contract with local providers, expensive GSM hardware, etc. Luckily at the moment they still don't know just how much they can push, so they are testing the waters by dipping fingers in it.
I may be lucky. I am an expat, and I bought mine in China. Now I am in Malaysia. So I may not have this issue. But your points are likely true.