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r00t writes:
"Taking a page out of Lexmark playbook, the Keurig company, famous for it's one-cup coffee making system, now comes with new and improved 100% DRM. Apparently, Keurig is upset over re-usable third-party 'coffee pods' which allow the consumer to escape the Keurig throw-away models which carry a retail price 5% to 25% more. Keurig's CEO, Brian Kelly referred to the move as 'game-changing performance.' Perhaps this will finally be the year of Linux on the Coffe Maker?"
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by edIII on Monday March 03 2014, @07:14PM
1) Stuck your head so far up your ass, you could be in Guinness
2) Not actually purchased a device that makes coffee
3) Agreed to wake up to be that CEO's personal bitch and drink what he decides you can drink.
How any consumer finds this appealing is beyond me. I would just stop drinking coffee altogether before allowing such idiotic and reprehensible forms of control over me, that are so easy for me to deny. Don't buy their little Hitler coffee maker and make do with something else.
(Score: 5, Funny) by GungnirSniper on Monday March 03 2014, @07:20PM
So the new product will be iCoffee?
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(Score: 3, Funny) by danomac on Monday March 03 2014, @07:27PM
(Score: 2) by edIII on Monday March 03 2014, @07:40PM
I... yes. It will effectively become iCoffee :)
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Tuesday March 04 2014, @09:29AM
You jest, but there's a reason for Apple's walled garden. But a DRM coffeemake? WTF?? Who would be stupid enough to buy one?
And it's not DRM, what digital rights does a coffeemaker manufacturer have? Christ, it's just a couple of heating elements, a tank and a switch. Perhaps we need a new name for this consumer lock-in evil and stupid bullshit.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 05 2014, @12:34PM
> You jest, but there's a reason for Apple's walled garden. But a DRM coffeemake? WTF??
Same reason... to secure a percentage of the profits on every sale of (apps/coffee).
(Score: 5, Insightful) by gallondr00nk on Monday March 03 2014, @07:38PM
The worst thing is, I'm willing to bet people will still buy it, the same as they still buy Lexmark printers. For the casual impulse shopper both look like a good deal, I guess.
Like said Lexmark, the consumer will be perfectly happy until they buy the first or second refill, then it'll end up gathering dust as they aren't willing to fork out for the consumables.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by edIII on Monday March 03 2014, @07:49PM
Dear Lord.... if Lexmark actually said that they should be dragged out in the street and shot.
Adding that much misery to the rest of the world in the form of electronics waste, pollution, and manufacturer impacts on the environment in a deliberate fashion knowing it will just be wasted is pure greed and malice.
With ideas like that, it's no wonder I've never bought Lexmark then. They were always shitty, and their laser offerings were subpar with subpar features and subpar coding.
I always wondered why I never heard any recommendations for their products. Just assumed they were horrible, not active parasitic mutants...
(Score: 5, Informative) by frojack on Monday March 03 2014, @08:06PM
You will note that Lexmark lost this fight, and upon hearing that HP decided not
to go down that road. All HP does is disable its ink level detection circuits
if they can't sense one of their own cartridges. The printers still work.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by NCommander on Monday March 03 2014, @09:02PM
It's a bit worse than that. Most people who buy Kureig machines use it initially with just K-Cups, then perhaps later use different cups (I know a couple of people with them, and my old roommates had one as well which I used fairly often). I mean, its a bloody plastic cup with a bit of foil that shoots hot water through it.
Now the cups are going to need some sort of electronic method to get the DRM shit to work, and that means the cups will be even more environmentally unfriendly, and more expensive. Who the fuck wins for this?
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by edIII on Tuesday March 04 2014, @01:49AM
"Who the fuck wins for this?"
The Share Holders, the only caste that matters now...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by davester666 on Tuesday March 04 2014, @02:12AM
keurig of course. not only will the cup be more expensive to produce due to the drm, but keurig will want a cut on top of that for 'inventing' this technology.
(Score: 2) by JeanCroix on Tuesday March 04 2014, @11:32AM
(Score: 4, Interesting) by mojo chan on Tuesday March 04 2014, @09:29AM
I wonder if that makes it qualify as WEEE waste in the EU? Can't just throw the empty pods in the bin in that case.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by cykros on Tuesday March 04 2014, @01:26PM
I'm wondering if this will go so well for Keurig in the long run. Seems like something that may get them a lawsuit for anti-competetive practices. For the most part, DRM is usually about intellectual property "rights" (or self-granted privileges). Provided these third party refill options don't violate any patents, I'm not sure how Keurig would fare in such a case.
Anyway, here's to hoping that it dies in the marketplace before it can even get that far. I'll be sticking with my DeLonghi espresso machine personally, and drinking something that tastes GOOD instead (for less than the cost of a Keurig, I might add).
(Score: 1) by EvilJim on Tuesday March 04 2014, @06:05PM
That's right, they'll probably reduce the price of the coffee maker due to the expensive consumables, soon it'll be cheaper to buy a new coffee maker with two free coffee pods than it is to buy the two coffee pods on their own, think hp printers / ink prices.
(Score: 2) by bucc5062 on Monday March 03 2014, @07:51PM
I almost anti-snorted snot reading this...thank you. Perfect response.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by BradleyAndersen on Monday March 03 2014, @08:03PM
when i by X, i should be allowed to do with X whatever i please, so long as i am not harming others through such use. i *almost* bought one of these ... now i will re-think.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by frojack on Monday March 03 2014, @08:11PM
Don't buy.
These are amazingly fragile and fickle devices.
The warranty return rate on them is sky-high. Especially the earlier models.
Most of the time Keurig stands behind the product and ships you a new one so you
are only without the device for a week or two. My brother's machine broke down 3
times, and each time he was upgraded to the newer model free of charge.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 04 2014, @01:56PM
Anonymous posting for reasons.
I've been told point-blank by people who sell and service these machines not to touch any consumer model, because the water pump is made of shitty cheap material that WILL break within months. The office models have slightly better pumps. For some values of "better".
Do keep in mind, the money is selling you the overpriced refills. The brewing machine is effectively a loss-leader disposable item, and is engineered as such.
(Score: 1) by MachineShedFred on Tuesday March 04 2014, @04:35PM
Which, they'll happily do now, as the new model will contain their DRM shit that prevents you from not having to buy their blessed fucking coffee.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Blackmoore on Monday March 03 2014, @08:30PM
At best you'll find a bunch of fist time buyers who buy on name; and then after finding out that the new machine doesnt work with the cups they just bought relegate it to the back closet. Another wasteful purchase.
(Score: 1) by jasassin on Monday March 03 2014, @10:57PM
Keurigs new "The Little Hitler 2.0". Brews a mean cup of coffee. Brews an even meaner cup of coffee if you are Jewish.
(Score: 1) by cykros on Tuesday March 04 2014, @01:29PM
I don't know whether to mod this up (for being funny) or down (for managing to invoke Godwin's Law in reference to a coffee pot).
I guess I'll leave it an this little explanation...
(Score: 2) by nitehawk214 on Thursday March 06 2014, @04:51PM
4) Not adequately informed of the drawbacks of the device you just purchased; and should return it for a refund.
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