• 0 Posts
  • 559 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: November 14th, 2023

help-circle


  • If Bosch had sold the dishwasher with a rinse button, and then disabled it via a firmware patch, I would be pissed as well.

    When Bosch disables old Home Connect users in 15 years, that’s exactly what will happen.

    so they could be screwing me if they want.

    They are screwing you. There was no reason for them to spend development money and servers that require constant money for maintenance to disable features on your dishwasher if there wasn’t profit.




  • But as I already explained, that’s not true. They gave you the illusion of value add by removing features. Look at your exact model, built in, from 3 years ago. It has buttons for half load, delay and delicate. It’s easier to push a button than find your phone and start the app. If your Internet is temporarily down, you don’t have those features.

    If the app was used for additional features, I’d agree. But they removed features to give the illusion of value add.



  • Even in my very high end Bosch ($1800 one), they removed buttons from their older version and put it into their revenue extraction cloud.

    The exact same model from the previous year had a “half load button”. The new one requires you to register with their cloud service and use the app.

    So the app only appears to give more because they removed features from the previous version.



  • As the video explains, if it was optional to add features, that’s fine. But you can’t access basic features like “rinse only” without connecting your dishwasher to their cloud service.

    It’s offensive. I got a Bosch last year because my other Bosch is good. I saw the cloud requirements and got enraged too. I should have sent it back. But I had the higher end version that has the time screen and put only the more obscure features behind their cloud revenue extraction.

    Fuck Bosch.








  • Obsession over corporate sports is a problem but many people enjoy it. I’m sure you have hobbies or activities that aren’t productive.

    I don’t follow professional sports but I also don’t care if people aren’t interested in 3d printing, cats, cooking, sci-fi media or any of my other hobbies.

    (Cooking falls into hobby because it’s not about survival but taste.)