Absurd! No home appliance should require an internet service. More enshittification.

Hahaha.

I just replaced a 20 year old dishwasher with it's newer equivalent: it has a grand total of 3 cycle options.

Screw this surveillance nonsense. Why does a dishwasher need connectivity? It's a box that sprays water.

A friend has one that the fastest cycle is 1.5 hours. One cycle is four hours... Wtf?

So here's the hot take I took from his video: yeah, an internet connected dishwasher is dumb, but so is a LAN connected dishwasher. "I don't want to have to maintain my own app to run this thing, keep this thing secure," damn straight. That little open source app is probably gonna get abandoned at some point, I don't want to have to fork it and fix things and patch vulnerabilities. I want a strictly Dumb dishwasher.

So Bosch is consistently anti-repair, huh. Not surprising

I don’t get it. Why do people buy connected appliances, then complain about them being connected? Last year I bought all my appliances from AEG and none of them are connected, they are pretty good and they run based on button programming.

I think that's on people who do no research before making big item purchases.

Of course it’s app dependent. Within the year those features will cost to be unlocked with a monthly fee.

I have one, I hate it. I can't wait for the day it breaks, I try to warranty it, and it tells them I missed a cleaning cycle and voided the warranty or some crap like that....

Oh and the 'buttons' are laggy as hell.

I bought a new Bosch a year ago to replace my broken Bosch. The mandatory wifi to a cloud service to access the same features that were a physical button on my old Bosch made me incredibly angry. This was the highest end Bosch dishwasher they sell. There is absolutely no excuse.

Consumer Reports is dead to me. They didn't mention it at all.

They used to be great, but they just couldn't help themselves.