Category: Buying Advice For All Appliances

How your personal details and data are things that many of us rarely, if ever, think about, but in the modern world, they are becoming an increasingly significant issue. If you are one of the people that don’t care, that’s fine but a lot of people are growing more concerned about how their da…

We keep on seeing manufacturers mooting so-called AI features these days, and along with that, often the mention of future updates seems to be common. We thought we’d take a look at that for people so that they can understand that these are unlikely and, even if they do happen, are not liable t…

This is a topic that hasn’t come up much, if at all, for kitchen appliances, but it is one that buyers should be made aware of because it is possible that, in some cases, that swanky connected appliance that you bought ends up becoming a useless brick. To date, this has largely been the preserve …

In the past, we have had times when people don’t quite get the difference between what “power” and “energy” are, as it can be a bit confusing when people who deal with this sort of stuff (like us!) often fail to explain well. We thought it might be a good thing to offer a better explana…

For many years, there has been a steady rise in interest in making homes smarter. This can be for to several reasons: in fact it can be one, some, or many. It all depends on what the user wants and the goals of it are. This makes the conversation about smart appliances a bit of a hard one as, dif…

At the time of writing we had recently reported on the Whirlpool and Beko team up and then hot on the heels of that rumours that Bosch might buy Whirlpool which, whilst politically interesting in the industry gave rise to looking again into who’s who and who owns what. A lot of buyers, for vari…

Unless you’ve been living in a very remote place, with no news, no internet and almost no human contact of any kind, you’ll have heard of AI, artificial intelligence as, in 2023/24, it’s been absolutely everywhere. But breath… it’s okay, we’re not about to tell you how the world is go…

USP, Unique Selling Point, is a tough one for appliance producers as they don’t really have any. If you look then sure, you’ll see some bigger load sizes/capacities, something about AI or whatever, lights, a flash screen and other little things to try to differentiate the appliance they’re …

Greenwash, noun, dictionary definition: “an attempt to make people believe that your company is doing more to protect the environment than it really is” By the definition of the word we could accuse almost any company of this practice but, in the appliance industry it is sadly rife, at least …

Is it true that manufacturers have deliberately set out to make stuff obsolete after ever shorter periods, or is that not the case at all? We’ve weakly argued or at least hinted on this website that it seems that there is a deliberate policy to make appliance lifespans shorter, and, from our pers…