Brainstorming and speculative question from a person thinking to invest into a set of expensive LG appliances, washer, dryer, Oled TV vs. Samsung bespoke and smart things. Would LG acquisition and opening of Thinq api bring a chance of Homekit integration not at experimental level? (I’m not platform bound and open to shifting to samsung or apple at the moment, thus the question.
What are the expectation going forward for Homey/Thinq? What use is LG AI if it’s only available on their hub and TVs?
Would LG tvs ever be hubs for Thinq/Homey like samsung Tvs for ST?
Since we’re speculating, I would guess that sometime soon we’ll see a local LLM available with Homey, making LG AI obsolete.
My guess is that investing in new LG appliances won’t be wasted money if you’re planning on using Homey into the future, but I suppose we’ll have to wait and see about that.
Interesting, from my research, they are now using Microsoft LLM on their 2025 TVs underneath the “Hi LG”.
The same place to their version of the Homie club, the so called FURON. Do you think it’s going to be better than Bixby at least? The bigger question is how to utilize it on such a limited number of devices? Basically, unless you have something like LG gram notebook, LG TV from 2024 or 2025 or the thinq version of the Homey hub, you can’t really use it. So it’s extremely confusing as to how LG is planning to approach it without having tablets and phones of their own. It seems the only logical way is to get in bed with either Google, or Homekit or both, instead of trying to compete with them.
Another question is, will they ever certify their appliances for matter (hence homekit), from the most recent interviews it looks like it’s extremely costly and time-consuming for the share number of devices LG makes. So I guess, unless Samsung does Matter on their appliances, LG will never do it voluntarily.
The only hope is if homey and their experimental siri integration, that LG can “borrow” for thinq app. What do you guys think?
No device can run it local unless it’s a high end phone. Even apple is finding limitations and will have no other options but to move to the cloud. But what puzzles me with LG is why do they even bother with FURON? Yes it’s copilot and Microsoft in and out, but why not just work with google/gemini and siri and alexa via matter integration? Nobody wants Bixby, and Samsung is still putting it on every single device with Tizen or android. And they have the luxury of having a full lineup of phones, tablets and smart watches, TVs, notebooks, Chromebooks, washers, and dryers and all kinds of appliances with screens. LG doesn’t have any of that. Most importantly, they don’t have phones, and yet they think they can succeed somehow?! Their strategy is weird and unlear to me. They want to be samsung with smartthings (thinq) and bixby (furon), but nobody wants that even from samsung, and samsung is everywhere!
Absolutely, the priority is very clear after CES2025
