Good. Maybe they’ll stop making crap appliances. Not holding my breath.
They’re Chinese, they’re going to be crap appliances.
Samsung is seemingly the gold standard for civilian grade appliances.
My thought as well. There was a time when GE Appliances were the only thing I bought. That stopped when the moved out of the U.S. in droves.
I bought several new appliances over the last couple of years. Two things I’ve noticed...
One is that all appliances are basically the same regardless of brand. Literally the parts inside interchange for the most part, only the pretty parts are produced by the OEM.
The other is that, generally speaking, they’re mechanically fine, other than maybe cheap plastic and thin metal, but they all have complicated control boards that are the first things to break, and the replacements cost almost as much as a new appliance.
If someone with a little bit of electronics knowledge was able to build a little control board that was customizable and programmable for the various devices out there, most people could keep their appliances working just about indefinitely or until they got tired of the looks.
That leads me to believe that the manufacturers could make appliances that last, but they choose not to. Funny how this planned obsolescence, which generates literally tons of waste every year, is ignored by the environazis who are concentrating on plastic straws instead.