To play's devil advocate and stop the circle jerking, let's do an intellectual exercise and try to think about why this might not be the dumbest decision ever. Maybe it could be more than just a ploy to increase sales of 1st party cups. Maybe it's about Quality control.
I grew up playing a lot of Nintendo games. SNES. N64. Gamecube. Wii. There was one thing I noticed about it. Nintendo always made the best stuff. They made the best controllers. The best games. The best memory cards. I had a 3rd party memory card that said it stored "56 blocks." But if you tried to put more than 20 on it, you'd sometimes find your data magically lost in the morning.So despite the GNU/Linux ethos (I'm typing this on a Linux machine), freedom to use 3rd parties does not always give a better user experience. More than that, I found Nintendo also had to approve every single game and accessory that was compatible with their system (seal of approval). So even that was considered the good stuff. This seal keeps a certain floor of quality control. Back in the days of the Atari, people were making all sorts of shit for it. Stupid consumers would buy it, use it with their Atari, and be frustrated. Nintendo forbade this and made sure everything that was associated with their product met a certain standard, thus giving a good experience. So maybe, Keurig will use their DRM for this. A way to help consumers, perhaps, figure out which cups are good.
>freedom to use 3rd parties does not always give a better user experience.
This is either a straw man or only very pedantically correct.
Is anyone here claiming that 3rd parties always give a better user experience? If not, it's a straw man.
If you are actually referring to the "freedom to use 3rd parties" not giving a better user experience - the user experience is either going to be equivalent or better, because freedom to use a 3rd party != must use a 3rd party.
Back then it was more difficult to tell the crap from the quality stuff. Crap substitutes don't last too long on the market these days with online reviews. I'm rarely hesitant to buy something with a ton of good reviews, and further that means more to me than would a Keurig Seal of Approval.
If you are getting a PhD in the US, and you aren't getting paid for it, then you shouldn't be in that program.
Technically my program charges tuition, but everyone gets a paycheck every month, and the department pays itself your tuition fees. I just owe the school $20 a semester for "student fees".
The payout system does not seem to be FIFO, that is, just because you put in money before person B does not mean you'll get paid out before person B. I also put in 1BTC (far before these people) and followed it up with a small transaction. The small transaction got paid back (also incorrectly) whereas my 1BTC was never returned. Oh well, it was fun to watch.
I've lost more in casinos and left with a "oh well" attitude too. Pretty sure plenty of people have. Of course, I've also left casinos with "fuck that sucked" attitudes, and also "look at all the money I just won" attitudes.
I grew up playing a lot of Nintendo games. SNES. N64. Gamecube. Wii. There was one thing I noticed about it. Nintendo always made the best stuff. They made the best controllers. The best games. The best memory cards. I had a 3rd party memory card that said it stored "56 blocks." But if you tried to put more than 20 on it, you'd sometimes find your data magically lost in the morning.So despite the GNU/Linux ethos (I'm typing this on a Linux machine), freedom to use 3rd parties does not always give a better user experience. More than that, I found Nintendo also had to approve every single game and accessory that was compatible with their system (seal of approval). So even that was considered the good stuff. This seal keeps a certain floor of quality control. Back in the days of the Atari, people were making all sorts of shit for it. Stupid consumers would buy it, use it with their Atari, and be frustrated. Nintendo forbade this and made sure everything that was associated with their product met a certain standard, thus giving a good experience. So maybe, Keurig will use their DRM for this. A way to help consumers, perhaps, figure out which cups are good.