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This is how a startup can compete with Google!

Established old-school companies too.

Without knowing, I'd expect Bosch and all the others to have a similar product, just five years late, slightly more expensive due to more realistic accounting, extremely boring, and without any of the shortcomings that GP has listed. Those are the ones that will last for decades. Their apps will never be amazing, but they'll last.

I wouldn't count on it. Bosch and other manufacturers are doing similar shenanigans. For instance I have a Siemens cloth drying machine, 7 years old, barely used. It's broken, clothes are wet and not warm when it finishes. I cleaned it completely. A service technician was there but couldn't repair it. I believe it's a programmed defect that happens after a certain amount of time. I can't prove it, but how come it's broken with nothing on the physical side being defect? Must be a software issue.

Siemens just license their name for consumer products these days.

... to Bosch.

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