[isawczuk]

This is an inevitable stage for every smart appliance: it will either suddenly stop working because it is discontinued, or it will start serving ads. I would argue it the same will happen with smart glasses, autonomous cars, and other smart device

[hilbert42]

We need sociologists to analyze the people who would actually consider buying such an appliance and tell the rest of us what makes them tick.

Most of the people I know wouldn't let this depraved tech into their homes. Same goes for gas stations where one is forced to watch ads whilst filling up. Most of the ones around me have been dismantled because people have avoided them in favor of stations that had not installed the tech.

By analyzing such people we can teach kids how not to be manipulated by sleazeball corporations like Samsung.

[therealpygon]

Not a sociologist but I don’t think this one is a big mystery. Off the top of the head I think of two reasons; people who buy things without research based on how a thing looks — you can bet the “demo” in-store isn’t constantly running ads, which should be false advertising — or because they want the thing in spite of the ads to show off to friends, to brag, because their {insert person} got one, etc.

Humans are just jealous moths who lack self-control.