No spyware and featuritis a la kings of user-hostilility LG and Samsung.
No planned obsolescence from built-to-disintegrate brands living off ancient reputations like Whirlpool and Maytag.
Just a machine that I won't have to worry about from a company that makes money by providing value rather than by victimizing their customers.
Sadly Bosch didn’t take the same tack; the prospect of slurping up all that sweet, sweet data must have been too hard to resist. I love my 800 series dishwasher but I do wish it were as “dumb” as the TR7.
Reviews are so easily gamed that it's hard to trust them. Only companies with small product lines can build and maintain a durable reputation for quality.
Maybe their built-in speaker hardware can be reconfigured to act as a microphone.
(Is it active noise-cancelation? If so, cool!)
My speedqueen dryer needs a new control board after 9 years. A new dryer isn't as high quality. From what I understand the dryer quality dipped in the past 6-9 years whereas washers are more or less the same. Maytag and GE have much cheaper dumb options you should consider, and save yourself several hundred. It will also make replacement less painful if a critical part dies.
Household appliances have been around for a long time now. I wish that there were open-source hardware designs that a certification organization could evaluate.
here's someone else with the same problem: https://www.reddit.com/r/Appliances/comments/10ijvmy/why_is_...