When I saw that $500 option, I knew one person who would certainly be backing it
Just thinking on that, with four brew kegs you could easily pipeline 8 picopaks a month (as long as somebody is around to help drink it!), or 96 a year. Every dinner party, picnic, BBQ, ect. That comes to about $1 a liter (minus electricity, distilled water, and the time spent cleaning). It goes without saying that offer does not apply to overseas users... I am jealous!
The Pico C cut a lot of corners to get the price down, but other than expedited cleaning I think the user experience is going to be worse. The serving kegs look the same, only this time they are not including a CO2 regulator (unless I missed something) which means keg conditioning, and then that awful dispensing plug, for a beer in two days that's flat. Maybe it is possible to use the new brew kegs in a ball-lock system with adapters?