It's pretty bad. <y new clothes washer has failed to connect despite a dozen tries. Now, normally, I would not even want to connect, but features that are standard buttons on my 18yo dishwasher, like delayed start, now require you to do it by phone.
So it's not like you get all the function you got from a 2010 machine built in, then some add-ons with the phone. You get a subset of the 2010 functions and to get full 2010 functionality, you need to connect.
I'd be less perturbed out it if the connection function worked.
>> circuit boards
Three failures in 18 years. An understated appliance repair person said to me: "Putting a circuit board in a place that gets constant steam is not really a good design." Basically, if the circuit board goes out and they don't sell it anymore, you trash the machine. It's so bad that it makes me think maybe I should just buy a circuit board for my new dishwasher and warehouse it. Ridiculous.
