Also my bet is that these machines will only be deployed in very high traffic areas inside high profit machines; not at the the gumball machine beside a bus stop in the middle of nowhere.
This and because it is also a massive animated billboard when people aren't using it.
It is a trick so they can get rid of their stocks of a drink that is almost, but not quite entirely unlike tea.
They're just saying it may potentially enter the consumer market just for something to say. The fact it has general purpose IO lines on it means it is aimed specifically at the embedded device market like SBCs.
The connector is physically bigger than the equivalent one in a mini PCI Express system. Manufacturers aren't going to switch to this new interface if it means allocating more space inside their laptop/tablet/netbook. It doesn't add anything extra that would be useful in those situations.
Kill Ugly Processor Architectures - Karl Lehenbauer
