That’s hilarious and sad. They outsourced their brand to the cheapest Chinese shit they could find. Stick to making candy, ja?
What’s Hiding Inside Haribo’s Power Bank and Headphones?
Submitted 1 month ago by JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.lumafield.com/first-article/posts/whats-hiding-inside-haribos-power-bank-and-headphones
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aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Quazatron@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Just another reason not to buy earbuds. You are sticking a fairly large amount of power inside your ear.
phaedrus@piefed.world 1 month ago
Except their candy also creates explosions...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/samlemonick/2016/10/28/that-time-gummy-bears-gave-everyone-diarrhea/
Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 1 month ago
I prefer the time weed made it into them theguardian.com/…/haribo-recalls-sweets-in-the-ne…
artyom@piefed.social 1 month ago
I mean they were wildly successful and made a bunch of money so if you ask them, mission accomplished.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
We’ll see in a couple of months when these things start failing/catching fire just like every other cheaply-made battery.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The Haribo brand has been going downhill rapidly since hired managers took over leadership. It has been run by the same family for generations but the latest heirs had no interest in a leadership role. So it‘s run by random business people now who only make short term decisions based on numbers. When they moved their headquarters from Bonn (the town part of the company‘s name is based on. It‘s part of it‘s very DNA) to a tax haven state to save cost, everyone knew it was over. That company is just a Brand name with no identity now.
KeenFlame@feddit.nu 1 month ago
It graduated to a multi global demonic entity and now it employs humans to harvest the planet exponentially and will never stop even if the owners wanted to. Everyone’s just doing their job… Especially the top lawyers and presidents that get paid a lot so they can seem special
_wizard@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Bought one of these for my partner for Xmas. Hearing they’re a hazard is news to me. Should I seek a return?
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Do you have any reason to keep your partner?
_wizard@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ha! She scratches that part of my back I can’t reach. She also doesn’t mind (and even requests) seeing me nude sometimes. So yeah, I kinda wanna keep her.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 month ago
It seems like they were on the path to a really great product, but failed due to choosing a poor quality supplier.
Pricing wasn’t the issue, the power bank’s lightness compared to its power capacity was the big attraction. The crappy version may be crappy, but it also demonstrates proof-of-concept that Backpackers really want it, and would probably be willing to pay a higher price for a reliable, high-quality version. Haribo needs to find a better quality supplier, get the product made correctly, and charge a reasonable price for it.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Why are Haribo even doing this don’t they make sweets (candy)?
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This is just vendor swag that someone realized could be a whole product line
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Lots of companies have wide product lines. The hard part of building a successful corporation is establishing a well-known brand, and once that is accomplished, many companies decide to use that popularity to promote more products that can increase revenue and profits.
It makes the most sense if the new products are within the same market sector, but it doesn’t have to. Samsung is a perfect example. In Korea, it is possible to work for a Samsung company, live in a Samsung apartment complex, drive a Samsung vehicle, use a Samsung phone, and probably a lot more other stuff.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Because the current management have no idea about the identity of the brand. They just want to make money quick but all they accomplish is losing market share.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
I’ve just been looking into this and I’m not sure that’s the case.
It’s seems that this was light compared to others because of the poor design and execution. They cut corners to and used lighter materials which in turn leads to the things found under the CT scans making them more at risk of fire or breaking down over time. It doesn’t seem like they made a revolutionary battery more a cheap one.
Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 1 month ago
Why are they so light? Do they way less than high rated 18650 cells would be for the rated capacity? If so they are probably inflating the rating. As is shockingly common for no name powerbanks. There are very minimal usb boards you can load 18650s into, or attach quad copter cells to, 3d print your own minimal case that suits your needs with the highest capacity and quality cells you can afford.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Gummi-power?
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Exactly!
GhostlyPixel@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It was very fun that haribo of all companies had the lightest battery for the capacity, but all good things must come to an end
ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Gummy bears are also flammable, so this all tracks.
Cattail@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Looks like 2 brick of cocaine
Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 month ago
I can see why it was popular with hikers.
Never know when you might need to start a fire to keep warm.
bonenode@piefed.social 1 month ago
Wasn’t the Haribo power bank popular among hardcore hikers, since it had the best weight to capacity ratio? Remember reading about that somewhere.
PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You clearly didn’t even look at the article. It’s literally the first point they made.
db2@lemmy.world 1 month ago
But what if, and hear me out in this one, what if the Haribo power bank was popular among hardcore hikers, since it had the best weight to capacity ratio?
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Haribo should’ve stayed in their lane
EtAl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Their lane being sourcing carnauba wax from plantations that use forced labor?
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Cursed headline, I love it.
whaleross@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I think it is fair to assume that if you get electronics branded by a candy manufacturer, you will not get any sort of quality electronics.
Obviously they shouldn’t be a fire hazard but still.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 1 month ago
Yeah, I would never even have considered those if I just encountered them with no other info.
I can get branding things that are maybe even tangentially related to their main activity, and then there’s a chance they’d want something at least decent. Possibly.
That one is so random I couldn’t imagine more thought went into it than tacking their logo on the cheapest thing they could buy.
exocortex@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
I hate that every known company has to suddenly exploit their “brand recognition” and expand into unrelated areas. It’s completely logical from a short-term-profits-from-uninterested-in-anything-besides-profits shareholders but destroys the value people ascribe to a certain brand in the long run. My favourite example: Marshall. They’ve been known for loud and DISTORTED guitar amplifiers for decades. They shaped the sound of so many famous bands. Their amps would last a lifetime and sound great! So someone thought "Hey let’s make shitty headphones and Bluetooth speakers that will - by nature - not be durable, will have to excell in an area that Marshall never was interested in: amplifiers that do not distort the source material and that sound neutral. They had to rely on completely new technology like Bluetooth (which changes it’s standard over time) or be dependent on shitty Internet companies like Spotify (who decide suddenly to brick devices by not supporting them anymore). It’s almost the complete opposite of everything Marshall stood for IMHO. The only thing they have in common is that they make sound. The effect is that people buy products that break, decay or deteriorate on timescales much much shorter than the original brand would be expected. The thing that Marshal will be known for in the future is these speakers or breaking headphones with OK-sound quality. But a few management people will have made a lot of money of course.