Re: Competition
Eh, depends. Whirlpool owns a fuckton of different brands in all sorts of markets. Certainly their Maytag and KitchenAid stuff isn't awful.
My tumble dryer is a branded Whirlpool and seems alright. Mainly because being a heat pump unit it's quite unlikely to self-combust like some of their other products. I do occasionally worry about it having been the cheapest heat pump on the market at the time, but really there's nothing inherently more complicated about them than a resistance dryer so I'm assuming the price premium is for being new and fancy.
Now my old Hoover dryer. It didn't catch fire, it just melted the plug into goo. But that's Candy group, and they specialise in making shit.
I'll give credit to Beko for being cheap and reasonably durable in certain things. Their dishwashers seem pretty decent.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
