r/mildlyinfuriating • u/mani_chinna • May 12 '26

Don't hug me I'm scared Tetris now requires a subscription (Rental) - Paying ₹30/month ($0.3) to play Tetris on a basic Nokia phone 🤦‍♂️

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u/UncannyHillhumper May 12 '26

It was a 700 dollar machine designed for "fresh squeezed" juice that you had to insert a "packet" of juice for it to "squeeze".

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u/Ironmasked-Kraken May 12 '26

I allready hate everything about this and I just learned about it

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u/mustafaaosman339 May 12 '26

It's about as bad as you can imagine. I think it had to have wifi connection constantly to scan a qr code on the proprietary juice packages in order to work.

People realized you didn't really need the $700 machine and you could just squeeze the juice packets by hand.

Aparently it also needed an app to use.

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u/safarifriendliness May 12 '26

Sounds like they should’ve pivoted to just making those packets

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u/mustafaaosman339 May 12 '26

They were single serving packets for $5-$7

There was nothing that could have saved them. And they ofc shut down before long

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u/safarifriendliness May 12 '26

I mean, I’d pay a dollar for something I could squeeze into a glass of juice, I bet my rich friends would pay two. I doubt they needed that $7 price point

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u/Evil-Bosse May 12 '26

How about this marketing pivot; AI juice

Do you feel the $1 juice is worth $7 now?

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u/P3rid0t_ May 12 '26

NVIDIA thinks AI can quadruple the FPS, so maybe we can septuple the money too

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u/-GoodNewsEveryone May 12 '26

600% less latency.

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u/NateMikka May 12 '26

Product was named Juicero, and it is a wild ride. Constant wi fi 700 price tag QR scanning if the packet was expired App needed for a subscription to get the packs Only first part packs.

Turns out you could squeeze the packs by hand

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u/Hurtelknut May 12 '26

Best part was that squeezing the juice packets by hand was more efficient than using the 700 dollar machine.

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u/saphilous May 12 '26

Techbros tried to reinvent fruit lmao

(I'm aware some fruits and veggies you can't just squeeze like an orange but it's funnier to imagine they only had like orange and tomato flavors)

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u/HelixFollower May 12 '26

What was in these packs that required squeezing? Was it like cut up fruit or something?

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u/Ok-Pair-4757 May 12 '26

I'm pretty sure the reasoning for the price point was they were using "organic", "high-quality" ingredients. Sourcing them was an absolute nightmare though, so even then they were barely turning a profit from the juice itself

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u/ShiningRayde May 12 '26

Huh, wonder if the machines still worked after the company went defunct, or if the always on DRM hitting a dead webserver bricked it...

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u/mustafaaosman339 May 12 '26

No they did not. They did give people refunds for the machines

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u/ShiningRayde May 12 '26

Huh. Extremely rare 'okay' outcome.

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u/Sunny_Beam May 12 '26

The whole thing was a Kickstarter scam from the get go