i died of dehydration trying to get my juice squeezed which didn’t work after 37 hours of trying because my wi-fi network wouldn’t connect please donate
i love when i need to make an account, connect my juicer to wifi, scan a qr code, and put in a packet of juice thats already come out of the fruit just so i can have some juice
I expected it to do something with raw fruits and vegetables, maybe in a really weird or useless way that takes longer than a regular juicer. It ended up being even worse
Reasons it flopped: *High price of device and juice packs *Only worked with special juice packs bought directly from manufacturer (DRM juice) *When packs eventually arrived, they had a short life meaning you had to consume quicker than you would like to *The juicer would refuse to squeeze packs which were out of date, so you couldn't even freeze the packs for later use *Creators were against freezing packets because of some spiel about cellular structure being compromised *Juicer required to be connected to internet/wifi in order to work *The juicer wouldn't squeeze all the juice out of the pack, meaning using your hands was better *It wasn't even a juicer, but a glorified press machine
CarGUY2014 That's because this song used in SpongeBob is suppose to emphasize how ridiculous something is when something stupid is going on, and this video is pretty much a basic form of that ridiculousness.
Arya Winchester so you can't use knock-off pouches. That's also the real purpose of the QR scanner. Juicero pouches have a QR code on them, and if it's a knock-off the press won't work with the pouch.
Superdoo987 -"The password is wrong sweetheart. the password is "thelegend26". -"I typed that before!" -"Try again" -"No" -"Why,you don't believe me? "Yes you always wrong!" "Do you think marrying you is a mistake?" "Well..." "I want to divorce." Thanks Juicero.
I love the fact that this is now 6 years old. I have come back to this almost every year. Juicero and Ouya gotta be some of the funniest failed crowdfunding products to ever hit the internet.
@@arrontheprotogen9276as far as I can recall it was like a console that ran on outdated Android software and t had a lot of factors weighing it down like bad internet connection and poor controller design. The Wikipedia page says it better en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouya
your comment just made me remember that when i was in school some kid invited me over to his house to play the ouya and then immediately after he showed me giantism fetish videos so thank you for making me have a war flashback 🎉
MissourHanzai Lol yeah a giant chunk of the USA's produce supply and the world's 6th largest economy with more people than Canada. Having it just disappear would be a WONDERFUL idea
The absolute funniest thing about the Juicero is the fact that the company spared NO EXPENSE when designing the machine itself. It is so ludicrously over-engineered, the machining is so precise, that it MUST have been made by a true madman.
This is what happens when you let the engineers design something without a budget. What I think could have happened was this was originally designed (minus the app and wifi stuff) for commercial use but Juicero couldn’t find a chain to adopt it so they scrambled and tried to market it towards regular consumers. A lot of restaurant equipment has the same engineering concept you’ll pay 2k for a mixer but that mixer will outlive you, your kids and probably your grandkids.
I think it was a joke that got out of hand. I imagine some drunk friends were sitting round and coming with the worst idea that they could pitch to a VC firm for a joke. Then when they got to the VC firm and pitched it some decelerate fuck offered them millions of dollars to run with it.
imagine not putting in a tall enough glass and having to watch in helpless horror as this monster overflows your cup and spills juice onto your countertop
Yeah well in 2018 Billy herrington died and half of the fucking internet is too young to remember/know him. 2018 was a grim reminder of how literally 99,99% of the interwebs is populated by a bunch of normies who have no respect for important people.
I feel like Juicero is the perfect symbol of everything wrong with a lot of modern tech: it's overpriced, solves a completely made-up problem, and makes a simple task needlessly overcomplicated by making you connect to wi-fi and scan QR codes to do something that could've easily been done using buttons. No one asked for it but millions of dollars were poured into it because out of touch millionaire techbros thought they could profit from it.
Well, we had the "food scanner" where you had to tell the companion app what you just scanned with the scanner so it could look up a basic nutritional database to report to you what each thing you scanned allegedly contained... (Tellspec and SCiO) The miracle blood tester that pretended to work with one drop of blood... (Theranos) The countertop -repurposed bread machine- food composter... (Lomi) The countertop clothes dryer that pretended to dry your clothes in a vacuum... (Morus Zero) All scammy devices that made millions (or billions) without actual independent verification. 😆 Such a waste of people's time and energy, and resources!
This invention is the poster child of “smart” devices that in no way need to be smart. It was a big phase of Silicon Valley, one that we may still be in the tail end of.
EDIT : I have made a mistake. You can simply recycle the packs, no need to return the pack back to them. My point still quite right. These packs means extra trash to be recycled, which is pointless. Rather than creating trash, which of course recyclable, why not just fully utilize our fruits and vegetables? Ordinary juicer already done this. All part of fruit is processed, except maybe the peel, and the waste are organic.
Yes - in fact, that was the entire point of the product. They could even remotely shut off juice packs they didn't want you using - ostensibly if they were expired or recalled, but as a result you were entirely locked into the Juicero system. Beneath the layer of "why does this pointless product exist" there's also a layer of typical vendor lock-in bullshit and everything else you expect from an SV startup.
Your profile picture is Chiaki Nanami and now I want to die because I just re-watched Despair arc episode 10 this morning so seeing the picture right now tore my heart to shreds
It still blows my mind how they thought to make something that's not only completely useless, but goes out of its way to be so counterintuitive. Even if it were a real juicer, there'd be no reason for it to (eventually) connect to the Internet.
It tells the company which products are being used more, letting them adjust production to better match consumption. Which most companies just get.from sales figures.
dave091790 hello! I'd like to drink some juice but somebody stole my Internet and now I'm starting to turn into an unhealthy fuck. Thanks technology! you're making things seem more and more useless and over-complicated as the years go by while I'm dying over here.
This honestly seems like something that could appear in a SpongeBob episode. Like something Squidward would get to try to make his home fancier, only to have trouble getting it to work due the absurd wi-fi connectivity and QR code requirements. And then Patrick grabs one of its juice packs, sticks a straw in it, and drinks the whole thing. And then Squidward goes into denial, insisting it’s not a useless expensive paperweight, desperately trying to get it to work. But by the end of the episode he gets fed up and throws it out his window. And then a police fish comes in his house and hands him a ticket for littering.
That... sounds exactly like a plot for a good old fashioned episode of Spongebob and this infuriates me because how did we ever get to a point where we as a species made this thing
And then in the end, it's revealed that Mr. Krabs is an investor in this thing and he's in his house saying something like "another day, another sucker" while counting his money.
Patrick: *takes computer and smashes it on paper agressively* DUH! DUH! DUH! DUH! Still more effective in removing the paint from the dollar than this juicer in juicing.
He also would have spent an entire episode trying to make a simple glass of juice on a Sunday afternoon in peace, while Spongebob and Patrick ruin his every attempt by being obnoxious neighbors. The episode would then end with Squidward's house reduced to rubble as he has a nervous breakdown. In the chaos, the destruction ends up ironically juicing his fruits as he laughs manically and submits to Spongebob's anarchic lifestyle... All the guy wanted was a glass of juice...
“The company defended its product and its process, claiming that squeezing packs by hand created undue mess and promoted a poor user experience” - the company’s explanation for why you can’t use your hands ...
because having 17 steps to connect to the thing via wifi with an app that needs you to log in, enter a code and then get a QR code isn't a poor user experience at all
As a white person in an early 2000's product commercial, I can confirm that spilling the juice absolutely everywhere would happen if I tried squeezing it.
Yeah. And the REAL kicker of this thing's stupidity is that you have to buy PACKS to get some juice instead of justing using fruit. I can find a 5$ juicer better than it in Walmart.
There isn't much of a profit margin on the juicer itself. Its made very "well" with high quality materials which are expensive to put together. The real money spinners are the juice bags. The machine is DRM locked so it'll only accept juice bags made from the company which are sold on a monthly subscription. Its made to fleece corporate customers which is why they were offering refunds for to normal people.
Du de. Then why not just sell the bags and call them pre made hand squeezable juice bags. That would have been way better and I am sure there is a market for juice bags.
Okay, the actual reason, the 100% truth, straight from the mouth of the creator, the official description is.... The wifi is checking the date. The package has a code label printed on it, thats the experation date. If the date is passed, the machine won't juice....It will refuse you juice... these dates are only a week long... 10 dollars a bag...
From what I understood, the juicer was for a raw diet, where the contents would never be cooked or pasteurized. For this reason, expiration dates were VERY important. Buuuuut, they advertised this incorrectly, and should've just sold the juice like juice boxes, and instead competed with literally 5 minutes of basic work in kitchen that's good for a week's worth of juice
It's juice? It shouldn't need to be cooked? Unless some horrific example of a human has invented meat juice, juice should be about as stable as the fruit it comes from.
@@connermckay4012 It is pseudoscientific to a certain extent, but raw food diets are a fad particularly in California. The idea that you can eat less processed foods is what draws people to it, and it is somewhat redeeming if you eat organic or self-grown food, but there's always a chance that harmful bacteria is reproducing in your food over time and your food will spoil sooner. This product was intended to try and make juice "subscriptions" where people got their juice fresh to prevent consumption of spoiled or dangerous juice, but the problem is that, as the video shows, it's more convoluted than just getting a juicer or blender
@jctripplesticks While it is mostly pseudoscience, there are genuinely a select few who cannot handle processed/cooked food. I have someone in my family who can’t handle cooked anything (even vegetables) or meat in general, amongst some other things. They have a myriad of other health-related issues (so this is really just an extremely rare exception to the rule).
they may have invested 120 million and I'm not questioning how fucking dumb that is, but that's peanuts for Google The google chef probably keeps that much in his wallet
i can understand a smart coffee machine that gets programmed to make coffe at certain hour so when you wake up/arrive home its always fresh but a 400 dollar wifi machine that just cuts open a bag of juice that only works with their brand is straight up tomfoolery
I work at a gas station that has two $17,000 touchscreen wifi americano machines. But they won't even let me update the display for what flavor beans we're using (and yes, I've fully read the owners manual, and it says as much), as they only want their own service operators to be allowed to do anything to the machines. Wifi connections are for forcing us to use proprietary products and service technicians. Thats all.
So basically... You buy a packet of juice, then buy a $400 machine that takes more time opening the juice packet than it would take you to open it with your hands?
For a single stupid reason They will not allow you to put juicebags that are - Expired - From another user - From ANOTHER COMPANY THAT IS NOT JUICERO So yeah, an useless $400 machine (that was actually $700 before)
@@maddieb.4282 Yeah, it's perfectly valid for someone to be surprised that the thing advertised as a juicer literally can't fulfill the one function a juicer has
pyrrhichos and have a smartphone, and download an app, and make an account, and have WiFi and sign in, and get a code, and show the code to the machine, and wait for it to connect, and buy juice packs, and wait for them to ship, and put them in the machine, then you can finally press the button. A lot of ands
pyrrhichos just like my printer :) I give it an order to print but still has to climb the stairs to power it on :( then it forgets, then I go downstairs again to give another order, then I have to climb back to take my papers
For $2, I can walk to the store that's on the other side of the road, grab a bottle of Ocean Spray, buy it, walk back home, open it, pour me a tall glass, and drink it before this monstrosity finishes prepping.
Tape a Capri sun to the wall upside down and poke a hole in the bag of Capri sun with the straw then squeeze the bag and it works just as good as this terrible juicer
the pet rock does nothing though, Yes it may be cheaper and far more affordable, but there's no point buying it, just like the juicer, the difference is price, and usefulness, Though I'd buy neither the juicer is too expensive to justify, and I could make a wifi pet rock without using any money.
Vara Mepresia it's not over engineered, they just didn't tell you about the data they collect and sell. why do you think it needs a wifi connection and that Google put a shit ton of money into it?
Whats the wifi for? Notification from Juicer: Needs more juice Notification from Juicer: Needs more juice Notification from Juicer: Needs more juice Notification from Juicer: Come back to bed honey. I loooooooooove yooooooooooou!
Glad someone knows what they're talking about and isn't just all "capatlism bad grrr" clowns.@@5554-c1i There is no capitalism in america OP, we have a Neo-Liberal Mixed Market. Go home commie.
Simeon Jackson A guy actually cut open the pouch and the inside is some mashed fruit stuff. Still, you could finish the juicing process by punching or pressing the pouch with your own 2 hands.
Roosell i don't know what's sadder: - That someone even thought about this - That a company of people with families to feed has hit bankruptcy because someone... ok i can't keep a straight face because i'm not sure if to laugh or cry
PixelMixel because they were making sure you couldn't use it her companies juice packs or out of date ones. Take a minute to bask in that stupidity...they honestly believed other companies would try to make knockoff juice packs for this useless pos.
