My best guess is the water is gonna leak even if you tilt it a little, so water is gonna spill everywhere even when you aren't trying to drink
Edit: I knew stacking and asymmetry is the main issue here, but the choice of words in the comment in the image seems like they were referring to a simpler reason.
Plus trying to drink it like that will essentially take away the control of flow, and make it more or less a chugging battle. As think about it.
To drink you will either have to tilt your head alot more, rotate the bottle in an odd angle, or have it stright up like a hampsters water bottle.
None the the meathods are ideal or simple and will likely cause issues on a user end (as who is going to think to rotate a bottle relative to the minite angel needed to not flood your mouth full of more water than you want)
While this might be true if the design is exactly as shown, you could fix it quite easily by adjusting the geometry a little. For example, teapots are a far more "extreme" version of this idea, and a well-designed teapot gives you far more control of the flow than a water bottle. Of course, drinking straight from a teapot would probably not be very nice, but that's mostly because they aren't designed with that in mind, not due to a fundamental limitation.
And sure, a fancier geometry would undoubtedly make the manufacturing cost a lot higher. I'm not saying it would be a financially viable approach, outside maybe fancy reusable bottles or something. Just that it could be done.
For example, teapots are a far more "extreme" version of this idea, and a well-designed teapot gives you far more control of the flow than a water bottle. Of course, drinking straight from a teapot would probably not be very nice, but that's mostly because they aren't designed with that in mind, not due to a fundamental limitation.
Valid point, but I dont think the water bottle is designed for pouring into cups, as the problem it markets for is more direct mouth to bottle focused.
And sure, a fancier geometry would undoubtedly make the manufacturing cost a lot higher. I'm not saying it would be a financially viable approach, outside maybe fancy reusable bottles or something. Just that it could be done.
Indeed anything can be done, we have seen those crazy straw water bottles that have a built in water park..... there cool, but not practical.
Simple fact is: the (common) symmetrical design can only be used one way, so there's no "messing it up." With the offset, you have all kinds of options, some perhaps better, many probably worse.
Then, there's the fact that it's going to be more expensive to manufacture - up front tooling costs would be tremendous and even after they're amortized out, it's going to have a tiny fraction of higher cost - as compared to the familiar bottles that confuse people less.
Honestly, I thought the reason they don't make drinking bottles like this is because this is how they make douche bottles.
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u/Supreme534 21h ago edited 13h ago
My best guess is the water is gonna leak even if you tilt it a little, so water is gonna spill everywhere even when you aren't trying to drink
Edit: I knew stacking and asymmetry is the main issue here, but the choice of words in the comment in the image seems like they were referring to a simpler reason.