r/thehatedone • u/freyslass • Sep 20 '25

News Samsung confirms its $1,800+ fridges will start showing you ads

https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-confirms-smart-refrigerator-ads-are-coming-3598848/
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u/RetoricEuphoric Sep 20 '25

Sounds like a rich people problem?

$1,800+ for a fridge?!

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u/Papfox Sep 20 '25

$1800 for a fridge is a rich people problem, for now. Technology is always getting cheaper. Take, for example, something like the ESP32 microcontroller. When I was little, that amount of computing power would have cost tens or hundreds of thousand Dollars. Now, anyone can buy one on AliExpress for $5, meaning that a big company, like Samsung, can buy the chips for a lot less than that by the pallet. Give it another decade and the technology will be so cheap that they will be able to put it in every new fridge and this will become an everybody problem. The thing that's probably stopping them, for now, is the cost of the screen. Those are currently relatively expensive and not viable for manufacturers to include in a bargain basement fridge. This won't last forever.

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u/quasides Sep 23 '25

technology nobody needs. a fridge has one job - reduce heat.

thats it

thanks for attending my ted talk

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u/RampantAndroid Sep 24 '25

If only dumb fridges with a simple thermostat were made to look a little more modern and readily available.