Talk:Computer appliance

IT appliances
Added additional content to reflect industry IT focus on computer appliances. Added multiple citations and relevant internal Wikipedia links. Ronk (talk) 04:45, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

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Hazard at home when operating 2001:4455:536:A700:7C18:7CB1:EDE0:BDD0 (talk) 03:03, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

Not just for home use?
This article currently states in its introductory sentence that: "A computer appliance is a home appliance". I believe this is overly-specific; the term "appliance" (referring to computing devices) is also used by commercial and industrial enterprises, and also by businesses which produce and market computer appliances for sale to other businesses. For example, in 2009 the electronic data storage company Data Domain described their rack-mounted storage device as an "Appliance". Additionally, this article currently includes a section titled "Appliances in industrial automation", which by definition is describing computer appliances being used in a non-home application.

Could I, or someone else, change the introduction to this article so that it does not exclude certain devices from being classified as computer appliances based solely upon market application? FlintTD (talk) 21:29, 22 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Agreed, and I have rewritten the first sentence accordingly.  Wasted Time R (talk) 22:26, 22 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much! --FlintTD (talk) 06:20, 23 January 2023 (UTC)