Samsung’s latest stick vac can alert you to calls and text messages
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Yeah, so now it sucks more. Isn't that good?
there is a point where something sucks so much it blows.
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there is a point where something sucks so much it blows.
Ha, touché
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Do you know how I can tell when I have an incoming call or message? My phone, which is in my pocket, makes a noise and vibrates. Why the absolute hell would I want my vacuum cleaner to notify me of a call?
And the washer too? Do they seriously think people just sit around at home taking calls every 5 minutes that they need every appliance to be able to make/take phonecalls?
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Some crappy product manager found some agreeable "tech enthusiasts" and/or worded their research questions in such a way that made it seem like this would be a net positive to the sales/profit of the product.
The engineers who had to design this terrible product were probably making jokes about it all the time.
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Even better:
Even better, if you’re doing the wash and left your phone in the other room, Samsung’s added touchscreens to its washers and dryers, including the new Bespoke AI Laundry Vented Combo washer / dryer ($3,099). This lets you answer a call directly on the built-in 7-inch LCD screen.
You can take calls with your clothes dryer!
"Hello?"
"Hey Dave...wait what's that noise?"
"Oh that's my washer and dryer going."
"Can you move to the other room? I can't hear you very well."
"No, the call is on my washer."
"WHAT?"
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It's about reducing variable costs.
You build phones, watches, tvs, washers, dryers, fridges? Why use separate hardware and software? That's just expensive. Just build a common platform that can be easily modified for everything and take advantage of production scale to reduce costs everywhere.
Slap in all those smart phone features too because why the fuck not. It's cheap and someone might be convinced to buy it.
Modern tech sucks
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I have an earlier version of this (got it on sale from Costco, and it was the highest-rated model by Consumer Reports at the time); I love it. It's not great for carpets, but it's fast and easy for hardwood floors.
Would I have bought it if it needed to connect to my cell phone? Absofuckinglutely not. Not in a million fucking years. It could have been the best goddamn vacuum in the world at sucking, powered by a miniature black hole, sucking dirt to the event horizon, and I still would have passed.
I need LESS connectivity in my life, not more.
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$1000 vacuum? I rather live in filth
Tbh, I like the shark rocket vac
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Yeah I don’t need Bluetooth in my toothbrush either.
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Some poor engineer probably had a crisis when they realised they where wasting their life implementing shit this stupid.
Given it's samsung, I doubt they have the time to have a crisis. Work hours for Korean tech companies can be quite insane, e.g. https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2024-06-08/business/industry/Samsung-implements-64hour-workweek-as-falling-sales-usher-crisis-mode/2063906
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Reddit has great information on vacuum's. The community has curated lists ranging in prices, and education surrounding the subject. According to them, you don't want to go bagless.
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Reddit has great information on vacuum's. The community has curated lists ranging in prices, and education surrounding the subject. According to them, you don't want to go bagless.
It totally makes sense - the dirt has to go somewhere and a cheap bag which you can take out and throw away sounds better than a tiny compartement that you have to shake out spreading the dirt everywhere
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