In the 25 years of Mac OS X and macOS (and 15 years of NeXTEP/OPENSTEP before/after that, I invite you to provide any reference at all to this phenomenon you mentioned. I suggest that you can’t.

This is something I always loved about macOS: the file copy dialogue was always very accurate.

Aside from what others have mentioned about the easy chemistry of it, decades of market research, have determined that people associate the lemony smell with “clean“, so it’s what they expect.

Before the rampant scenting of everything, most cleaning products just smell like ammonia or bleach or vinegar. So, when companies decided to cover that smell with something more pleasant, it also had to smell as astringent as other cleaning chemicals. That’s probably where the association comes from.

Let it die

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chefs kiss

So, Evil Corp, then

I meant North American.

That usually has to do with the fact that American appliances are 110 V for everything but ovens and dryers

It’s more than just their washing machines

Right, because I want to pay a huge amount for water and power like a commercial laundromat does. Lol.

I love it when people argue with me like I don’t do this for a living.

I’ll say this about GE appliances, until they were bought by Haier in 2016, they sucked too. But once they were bought out by Haier, their quality improved remarkably, and so did their customer service. They’re pretty great now.

it will also tear your clothes apart while using 3x the water and power as a newer model LG or GE without an agitator

no thanks!

as someone who deals with this professionally, i assure you: they are.

every samsung appliance consistently fails in one of a few ways, so much so that it’s not simply a matter of by-chance defects. they’re design flaws.

i guess you missed the part when i said “i wasn’t referring to old appliances,” because you’re only talking about old microwaves.

and since you’re clearly just here to troll and argue. i’m blocking you.

bye.

Well, generally speaking, most people discussing the benefits of appliances and stuff with turn dials are referring to older/simpler appliances, back before they started adding in unnecessary electronics and ‘features’ and stuff.

i don’t know why you’d assume that. lots of current/new appliances are still made with dials and knobs. in fact, most are.

also, you’re the only one here discussing microwaves. so far, others and myself have been discussing refrigerators and laundry appliances.

enjoy!

i’m not referring to old appliances

And some of the high-end models yes, but there’s still a wide range available with different levels of “functionality.”

You should check out Electrolux. They make some really nice laundry appliances without any smart features at all. They’re great.

The massive volume of sales for North America is too big to be met by factory defects. They’d have to have entire factories making defects.

I hate to break it to you, but even with the knobby versions, it’s still electronic under the hood. But I know what you mean about the annoying bleeps and bloops. Again, though, the Samsungs were always the worst offenders in that regard, omg…

GEs make little noise, and LGs are pretty low-key. Whirlpools and Maytags just beep a couple of times.