The promise was to integrate your contents of the fridge with some kind of smarts that let you know when your milk was going to expire and to suggest you buy more. The reality is that is dumb because it takes more effort to maintain that digital list than just noting "I need to buy milk". And now it's used for advertising space because it has no other real purpose.

I have a tablet sized easel I use for recipes. Well, I use the tablet, then put it on the easel. Why the hell do I want to walk over to the fridge to look at the recipe when all my stuff is already on the counter??

With these devices we are mostly safe for now, unless this is successful and Samsung sees worthwhile profit that justifies the added design and parts costs. This may well be the case and at some point in the future it may be that they find a reason to put a screen on literally everything you own as an excuse to have a vehicle for ad delivery

Hopefully this will be a “name brand products” issue though and cheap no name barebones toasters or whatever will always exist (though with the risk of potential hazardous build quality). What a wonderful future we’ve created.

Alexa is just as bad if not worse.