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Sometimes in 2016 we were working on a kitchen renovation and decided on a built-in double oven, and went with GE's offering. I seriously considered $ 300 more for the top-shelf offering that included convection on both ovens and Wi-Fi connectivity. Back then Haier just bought GE Appliances and that made me waver. Also I knew their fridges with Wi-Fi were running Windows CE, what I didn't think it would have a long future, and integration through a now chinese/american company didn't quite appeal me. In the end bought the version without Wi-Fi and only one convection oven, which has proven more than enough. The advantage of Wi-Fi we though would be to be able to set the oven to cook the food left on it by the time we arrived from work. But then again food had to be left at room temperature most of the day, so we figured it wouldn't be something we would use too often. Now after two years of working from home, this became more irrelevant. Now my house is as automated as I can possibly make it, but running local mesh networks (Z-Wave and Zigbee), and the few Wi-Fi devices are HomeKit enabled, which means it should not depend on 3rd party cloud offerings for standard functionality, and has been mostly limited to decorative lighting developed in North American or European companies.