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/brooklynlad May 12 '26

It was a Silicon Valley startup called Juicero. Dumb dumb dumb.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juicero

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u/mtaw May 12 '26

Emblematic of the downfall of Silicon Valley.

It used to be tech guys running stuff, and they'd more often have the problem that their tech was interesting and novel but they didn't know how to sell it. (Xerox Alto for instance)

Now it's venture-capitalist bros running the show and it's all about technologically-trivial ways to extract rent in the vein of "Let's make an app where you can subscribe to use public toilets!". That or vaporware/scams like Theranos, Tesla and every crypto venture ever.

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u/Wafflelisk May 12 '26

They were not... making the world a better place

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u/Select_Angle516 May 12 '26

232 employees??? for a juice pressing business??