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Author Topic: Breakdown of Juicero expensive juice-pack squeezing machine travesty  (Read 12,279 times)

mouser

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Last week Bloomberg published an article exposing how easy it is to “hack” Juicero’s produce packs by squeezing them with your hands, deeming the $699 (now $399) WiFi-connected juice press completely unnecessary. Nearly overnight, Juicero has become the posterchild for Silicon Valley excess....

I hope this post serves as a lesson to other hardware startups that spending tens of millions of dollars on product development prior to shipping a single unit is a goal that’s not worth striving for.

Juicero’s Press is an incredibly complicated piece of engineering. Of the hundreds of consumer products I’ve taken apart over the years, this is easily among the top 5% on the complexity scale.


https://blog.bolt.io/heres-why-juicero-s-press-is-so-expensive-6add74594e50


Screenshot - 4_25_2017 , 4_05_41 PM_thumb002.png

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ARGH!  ;D

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must have been fun to work there, before that all came out
Tom

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