Re:My dishwasher won’t start until I let it update its firmw...
by bryanrasmussen on Monday January 31, 2022 @11:50AM
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>Alternatively as the dishwasher clearly is on Wi-Fi already (the only way it would know there's an update)
I guess yes it might be that but consider this workflow -
First start
Ask to update software - sounds legit
OK
Now you've okayed, now we ask to connect to Wi-fi - obviously need to connect to update software which you already agreed to!
If say user testing found that more people agreed to connect to Wi-Fi as part of update software on first installation then we get the above workflow and nobody says my dishwasher won't let me start without connecting to Wi-Fi which to some people might sound more worrying. And people then say there are lots of reasons why you should take software update - what about security! Bug fixes in the dishwasher!
but all that said you are probably right, it is on wi-fi and that's how it knows, but it won't necessarily stay that way forever.
I guess yes it might be that but consider this workflow -
First start Ask to update software - sounds legit OK Now you've okayed, now we ask to connect to Wi-fi - obviously need to connect to update software which you already agreed to!
If say user testing found that more people agreed to connect to Wi-Fi as part of update software on first installation then we get the above workflow and nobody says my dishwasher won't let me start without connecting to Wi-Fi which to some people might sound more worrying. And people then say there are lots of reasons why you should take software update - what about security! Bug fixes in the dishwasher!
but all that said you are probably right, it is on wi-fi and that's how it knows, but it won't necessarily stay that way forever.