McDonald’s soft-serve ice cream machines are regularly broken, and it’s not just your perception. When repair vendor and advocate iFixit was filming a video about the topic, it checked tracking map McBroken and found that 34 percent of the machines in the state of New York were reported inoperable. As I write this, the nationwide number of broken machines is just above 14 percent.
To improve the nation’s semi-frozen milk fat infrastructure, iFixit has done two things. One, as first reported by 404 Media, is to join with interest group Public Knowledge to petition the Copyright Office for an exemption allowing people to fix commercial equipment, such as McDonald’s ice cream machines and other industrial kitchen equipment, without fear of reprisal under Section 1201 of the DMCA.
This ice cream machine saga is so bizarre…
It really isn’t once you understand the basics.
That is all there is to it.
They are using the government to enforce an exclusivity agreement that is explicitly restricting the market.
I’ve watched the fascinating YouTube documentary on it but it still seems crazy that the company is fighting so hard to stay shitty and terrible. They’ve attacked people trying to help too, like wtf?
That’s how you can make money. There’s a financial incentive to be a piece of shit many times, unfortunately.
Crapitalism: When you take capitalism and remove meaningful regulation.
You mean Neoliberalism, our current dark shade of Capitalism.
It’s because McDonalds makes money by selling the machines to their franchisees.
I hope it ends less dramatically than the mc Donald too hot coffee saga.
I’m surprised nobody has gotten sick yet.
I’m sure plenty have tbh
It’s not much different than coke/Pepsi fountains….
Given how filthy those things get, I’m surprised people don’t get sick from them too.
Yah, everyone just needs to cool down.