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My biggest problem with the product is that the QR-scanner, the wifi, the app, all of that has the single purpose of sometimes saying "no" when you press the bu
by henrikschroder 10y ago
My biggest problem with the product is that the QR-scanner, the wifi, the app, all of that has the single purpose of sometimes saying "no" when you press the button to press a pack of juice. That's all it does.
If you remove all of that crap, you get an overengineered juice-press that never says no, and always presses the packet you put into it.
Nothing is more infuriating than machines that randomly say no and refuse to do the thing they're supposed to do. The consumer value of all of that crap is negative.
"But the machine can alert you if the juice pack expired or was recalled"
Look, if you can't read the best-before date already printed on the pack, and if you can't smell the juice and tell if it's funky or not, you are a useless human being. I'm sorry, but you are.
- Nition 10y agoIMO the even worse part is that you can only use their own packs at all. You know the company is most likely going to be gone within five years and then you're stuck. The recall thing is so ridiculous though. The CEOs letter mentioned a hypothetical "spinach recall" that you would want to know about. Never in my life have I had to worry about my vegetables getting recalled. Why on Earth would I be looking to buy a product that can tell me about something that in my experience never happens?
- henrikschroder 10y agoAnd if your internet is down, or their service is down, or Amazon EC2 is down, no juice for you! Why would anyone want that in their lives?
- jsymolon 10y agoActually, in the past few years there has been a number of packaged vegetable recalls. Last ones were for packaged spinach.
- ansible 10y agoYes, we've gotten a couple notices from Costco about recalls on frozen vegetables.
- nommm-nommm 10y agoVegetable recalls happen, check out https://consumerist.com/tag/recall/ https://consumerist.com/tag/recall/ but it doesn't justify the QR code, they already have your email address.