K-Cup creator John Sylvan regrets inventing Keurig coffee pod system

Re:K-Cup creator John Sylvan regrets inventing Keurig coffee... by JohnFen on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @07:48PM (#18721523)

"The repairability market was small peanuts compared to that, and I genuinely believe that no one wanted iPhones to be harder to service vs other phones."

You've contradicted yourself a bit here. You said that Apple was willing to forgo repairability in order to chase a new market. So, while making the devices hard to repair wasn't the primary goal, it certainly was something they wanted to accomplish in order to service a goal that was more appealing to them -- so they did want the devices to be harder to service.

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Re:K-Cup creator John Sylvan regrets inventing Keurig coffee... by oneplane on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @09:58PM (#18722152)

I don't think that's what he wrote, is sounds a lot more like that non-Apple repairability getting harder is simply a side product.

Apple doesn't really win or lose much with the home repair market, and as mad as some people get over that, the numbers aren't lying.

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Re:K-Cup creator John Sylvan regrets inventing Keurig coffee... by JohnFen on Thursday December 20, 2018 @11:45AM (#18726450)

"is sounds a lot more like that non-Apple repairability getting harder is simply a side product."

Yes, that was what I understood. What I'm saying is that it's hard to assert that "no one wanted iPhones to be harder to service" when they've intentionally made the decision to make iPhones harder to service. Yes, making them harder to service was not the primary goal, but they chose to do it in order to achieve a different goal -- therefore they wanted iPhones to be harder to service.

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