smart appliances didn't result in huge new appliance factories being built that could supply 50x the world's actual need for new appliances. If they had, those factories would inevitably have been abandoned a few years later - just as 98% of "AI" data centres will be abandoned when the post-bubble market settles down to providing the AI demand that exists.
They just changed slightly which features were added to appliances in the same factories that already existed.
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