wesleyshark
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Yeah it really is loll. So many better (and cheaper) options out there, like Jamba Juice. There's one across the street from where I work. I go there 2-3x a week.
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Silicon Valleys $400 Juicer May Be Feeling the Squeeze
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Wow. I envy the people who can actually afford to spend $400 on something like this.
Sooo much plastic waste!https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-04-19/silicon-valley-s-400-juicer-may-be-feeling-the-squeeze
A 400 dollar machine that just squeezes juice bags into a cup, that can be done by hand. Typical silicon valley stuff.
Squeeze me if old.
Edit: BTW you can only buy the bags if you buy the juicer AND they have been encoded with DRM that wont let the machine squeeze bags that are not-valid.
Yes really.
Added Gif of comparison
ConfusingJazz
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I understand that there are fruits and veggies in the bag itself. My question: Does that really matter? It doesn't seem like it. It seems like it's just a really expensive bag of juice with "real veggies included" type of thing.
I really want someone to cut a back open to see what's inside. They claim its contents are chopped up fruits and veggies but if you can squeeze out the same amount of fluid by hand something fishy is going on. My guess is they produce the juice in bulk, fill the bags with it and toss a little of the pulp in to make you feel special.
TunaMarshmallow
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I agree. We need to see the contents. Unless the bags make your hands super powerful, there's no way you're squeezing all the juice out of apples, carrots, and fucking spinach. It's just not happening. It's gotta be bags of juice with some pieces of watermelon floating around. Heh.
BLAUcopter
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People will buy anything. $400 USD for a fucking juicer? Jesus Christ lol.
I bloody love this excerpt.
kept laughing all morning...
Why put the expiration date directly in the QR code when the juicer can call home so they can log your habits and sell them later?
I thought the whole Apple thing was selling junk for luxury prices?
newtypepilot
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man, and I thought those $15 jar of "organic cold pressed" juice were a ripoff. This is just pure snake oil.
- creates tons of plastic waste
- makes you buy the machine first in order to get the packs. (The packs are not cheap either, ranging from $5 to $8 in a 8oz serving LOL)
- packs have DRM
- creates tons of plastic waste
- makes you buy the machine first in order to get the packs. (The packs are not cheap either, ranging from $5 to $8 in a 8oz serving LOL)
- packs have DRM
Kill Your Masters
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TatteredHat
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Juice is overrated.
Chozoman
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Don't worry, you just print out a postage paid sticker and send your bags back to the company for recycling! They thought of everything!
I'm not joking. This is seriously what you are supposed to do
Grimm Fandango
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The DRM/QR code/recall/expiration date thing is seriously the most amazingly stupid thing I've ever heard.
Chittagong
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Considering Apple sells you an expensive iPhone, while you actually could make calls just by holding your hand like this
yes, the two cases are pretty similar
Lol. Good luck being the next Steve Jobs.
Silicon Valley is basically at the point where it's a parody of itself.
First off I think this is overpriced and the whole idea is absurd. No idea what kind of person would spend $400.00 on this to squeeze juice out of bag.
Regardless you cannot get the juice without the $400.000 machine. So it's not like people can just walk into a store and buy the $8.00 juice bags, squeeze it with their hands and the company is out $400.00 bucks.* People aren't going to buy the machine and not use it.
*Of course my post is null and void if they start selling the juice bags in stores.
Regardless you cannot get the juice without the $400.000 machine. So it's not like people can just walk into a store and buy the $8.00 juice bags, squeeze it with their hands and the company is out $400.00 bucks.* People aren't going to buy the machine and not use it.
*Of course my post is null and void if they start selling the juice bags in stores.
The Fatal Englishman
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It's basically the good old 'razor and blades' (or 'printer and ink', if you will) business model in action - except they seem to have forgotten the part where you make the core product relatively cheap and force consumers to pay a premium for proprietary juice packs.
fastford58
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I'll keep throwing fruit through my Jack L. juicer.
lol
lol
This has to be the most asinine thing I've seen come out of silicon valley, scratch that, anywhere in a good long while. I expect to see these things to be on the bargain side of the aisle soon enough, and people realizing they bought a decorative kitchen item as the pouches become harder to locate.
Yeah it's fishy as shit. I bet the harder-to-squeeze items (like carrots) are already pulverized, and only soft fruits/vegetables are left in chunks so that the user thinks it's doing something.
stump sock
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just grab a fork and eat the pulp
at that point, just eat some fucking fruit salad
this whole thing is hilarious
Juicero dude "invented" the machine because he got pushed out of his old company and could no longer get his juice. LOL.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rEkowig7-M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rEkowig7-M
Maintenance
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Dude is a modern day snake oil salesman. Off the charts hustle game.
Part of me gets mad but the other respects the fact he got all that money from VCs.
Part of me gets mad but the other respects the fact he got all that money from VCs.
Lucky Forward
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This thing is the very definition of overdesigned:
echoshifting
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The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
My product has 10x the functionality of this piece of junk with one PCBA in an enclosure made from like six parts
I mean, I'm technically a mech E, I get it, machinery is way more complicated than people think but dude
its a juice press
EDIT:
jesus christ
Dont even believe him this story. No way all of these Silicon Valley Stars have their personal special origin story...
The entire "cold press" juice thing is awesome but I feel like a lot of people are being taken advantage of, especially when they aren't actually pressing the shit in front of you. At Coachella last weekend there was a bigass cold press juice place selling prepackaged bottles and I had two of those things over 3 days at $12 a pop. They had amazing descriptions for each but at the end of the day they just tasted like watered down Odwalla with no sugar added.
SafeinSound
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Holy shit. Fuck this company.
Also, I hope since this company is about being organic those shitty bags are disposable, unlike k-cups.
Also, I hope since this company is about being organic those shitty bags are disposable, unlike k-cups.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
The more I read this sentence the more I love it. There's tech illiteracy and then there's listing things like "has an antennae" and "contains a microprocessor" as features of your "IoT device"
just grab a fork and eat the pulp
The pulp is wider than the narrow part of the bag, like it only fills the very top portion of it. LOL.
I mean, obviously it's a photoshop, but that's what it looks like.
ghostofsparta
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This is not even an original idea. There are already hydraulic juice presses on the market, and you can supply your own fruit.
Yeah but that's for poors
Juicero matches my latest iPhone....And connects to it too!
Btw I just found out about Juiecero's competitor, JUISIR
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1793272089/juisir-juicing-without-the-cleaning
Same idea, but you can provide your own fruit and veggies. Must be chopped tho
Yeah I'm not sure how you end up with "no mess" if they suggest slicing open the bags to eat the pulp and then recycling it (which means washing the bags if you want it to actually be recycled and not discarded at the processing center.)
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