Most stuff ships today with half-baked firmware that (urgently) needs updating. They know it doesn't work right when they sell it to you.
Now lookee here, computerized junk sellers: I'm not even a codehead and *I* could write the code to control laundry machinery. I've done it with other machines like laserdisc players (1989), it was my job to test them so I had to write the test code. While all versions worked it took 4 updates to get it practically concise enough to enter each machine by hand.
Howzcome I'm such a geen-yus yet unemployable for over a decade? Well first of all I'm American and expect $15-50 an hour. That's a major buzzkill in the 'global economy'. Second, I actually understand the machines I'm programming, which other-world BSCS graduates most assuredly do not.
For most here, I could teach you enough about code in 2 weeks, plus what you already know about machinery, to write laundry code that not only works but works to the satisfaction of most users, since you already represent the most sophisticated users and machine-control code is little different from counting on your fingers.
Why can't other-worlders with 4yr degrees grasp this? As with most degree programs, they are a generation obsolete when they are granted. And their students don't actually care about applications or anything practical, just parrotting what they were taught to acquire the label they think is their ticket to riches.
Perhaps you begin to see how perverse the system has become, in an effort to capitalize today upon stuff that was readily knowable in the 1980s. Even with the best intentions, it's not possible to grind 30 years of background into virtual morons overnight. And the perpetrators haven't 'best intentions', but self-serving ones.
That in brief explains why your appliances want to be connected to wifi and why they don't work worth a flark whether they are or not.
