Amusing, clever, but extremely fake.
This is a GE Café CFE28/CYE22 refrigerator and it definitely does not run Windows. You can use its little LCD screen as a digital photo frame, though, and there’s a USB port for that purpose tucked beneath the lower edge of the bezel under the buttons. Somebody’s just made an image of this fake “Windows update” screen and put it in the photo frame rotation.
But but but but but this is our “upmarket” model and we need some kind of rationalization to upsell people to it over the Profile PFE28/PYE22 which is the same fucking refrigerator mechanically minus the screen and with different handles, but this one costs 30% more.
Don’t know why the downvotes. You are absolutely correct.
My fridge doesn’t even have a screen, but it has wifi. Wifi!! You do one thing. You are a box designed to keep my food cold. I set the temperature, and I forget that exists.
Anyway, we bought it when we bought our house. The previous owner offered to include all the appliances in the contract so it was nice to not have to buy any appliances. But that refrigerator stays OFF my network.
I’m OK with it for some things tbh. With a wifi fridge for example I can know if it stops working and the temp starts rising before I have a fridge full of spoiled food. With an oven I can know if I left the house with it still running. With the washer/dryer I can get notified when I need to fold the cloths before they get wrinkled. I think connected appliances have more useful applications than people give them credit for.
not advocating for all IoT products, but some fridges have internal cameras (allows you i remotely access and figure out what you have and dont have), and some also have product expiring tracking so that it can warn you if something is approaching thr best buy date so you can use it up soon or throw it away.
washer and dryer IoT projects to me tend to be pretty terrible.
To be fair, making a device wifi connected is stupid cheap nowadays. That being said, you bet your ass they’re harvesting data.
My parents got a fridge with a similar feature and no screen (they didn’t know it had that) but I was curious and hooked it to the IOT network. Literally the only smart feature it exposed was a door open sensor…
I know the real objective is mining your data and acting as an insecure node for identity thieves to access. But what is its stated objective? I have no idea why anyone would think that is a positive.
We ran out of things we need about the time we learned how to filter water and grow wheat.
I’m ok with the further progress into antibiotics, vaccines, surgery, all that good stuff.
You can use its little LCD screen as a digital photo frame
Whhhhhhhyyyyyyy
You may be right, however windows iot does in fact exist, and this is what the update screen looks like.
Updating
Windows