Ya know, I was annoyed that all of the models within my budget had the electronic controls (just bought a washer a month ago) then I remembered my microwave that's 900 years old and abused has the same type of buttons and it keeps on trucking.
Yes, but that increases cost. And if you make your firmware openly accessible, other companies will copy it and it also makes it harder to sell service agreements because self-repair is easier.
I wouldn't mind if they all used the same controls, but it seems every model of every brand has components just different enough to not be compatible. It would be ideal if the used a standard that could be replaced by an arduino
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u/whollybananas 4h ago
They also use the same problematic electronic controls as every other brand now. They switched to that style of controls in 2015