Jeff bought that dishwasher based on its Consumer Reports ratings. They must have taken his criticism into account, because it is now far from the top rated dishwasher and includes a disclosure about requiring an app.

I trust Consumer Reports and would never buy an appliance without consulting them, but it doesn't surprise me that they're a little conservative and wouldn't realize they need to call this stuff out initially.

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mrweasel 5 days ago | parent [-]

I believe Jeff pointed out that he got the 2025 model, while the tested model was a 2024 model. So they may have retestet with the new model and it now scores worse.

The interesting bit would be to have the reaction from Bosch. They "updated" their design and the review score went down.

	▲	bryanlarsen 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		It's still got a pretty good score, so it probably hasn't yet been added to the scoring criteria. OTOH, it's got the caveat and it's at the bottom of the list of recommendations, so it feels like some non-numerical weighting has been applied. I hope they do add it to the scoring criteria soon. In the meantime "wifi" is a feature that can be filtered on in their sorting tool.