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Cramming useless, unwanted bloat into existing products is what corporations do when they've lost the ability to innovate but don't want to admit it.
Manufacturers do the same thing. I spent a couple of years at a company that makes industrial power tools. Those jokers tried adding a line of "smart" tools, apparently not understanding that people don't buy a tool that costs thousands of dollars because of some irrational compulsion to connect everything to WiFi. They do it because they need a tool that stands up to a highly abusive environment while doing it's job every single time without fail. Management was somehow shocked when this new point of failure was not well received.
they know thier AI isnt profitable, so they try to justify its cost by adding it to anything to keep the scheme going.
Wifi I general is just.....
The only wifi capable device I have in my home is my phone. I don't want it anything.