A customer said something to me today which got me thinking.
With all the clever electronics in washing machines, could or would a manufacture programme in faults to happen in the future. Or perhaps have a machine fail after 1000 hours of use, or after 1000 wash cycles.
A very well known Printer Co, sets a print limit on thier printers you can get software on cdrom to reset the page count and it all works again. The display tells the user to call their helpline, and an engineer calls to clean the printer and service it, at a price.