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I don't quite understand why anyone would want this apart from the gimmick factor I can buy tickets for the local tram/busses/trains on my phone. It's a great

I don't quite understand why anyone would want this apart from the gimmick factor I can buy tickets for the local tram/busses/trains on my phone. It's a great service that works close to flawlessly. If I could print off tickets at home though, and thus not rely on a network connection (to buy the tickets) and battery life, I'd do so in a heartbeat. I think there are plenty of uses for small things like this. Personally, it's too expensive for me to use for small fun things like this, but I imagine other people will have more useful ideas that'll make it worth the money.

unwind 14y ago
But that kind of usage, which sounds pretty much exactly how you'd use a desktop printer, is not at all what they seem to be selling. Their idea is that you should use their cloudy goodness to define a bunch of subscriptions to pre-curated "publications", which is what get printed on a schedule. So you could probably get your daily Wired synopsis in the morning, on paper. Or something.
- mootothemax 14y ago
  But that kind of usage, which sounds pretty much exactly how you'd use a desktop printer, is not at all what they seem to be selling. Their idea is that you should use their cloudy goodness to define a bunch of subscriptions to pre-curated "publications" Yeah, it was more the small form factor that was working for me, rather than the publications aspect. Basically, I guess that I'm 100% not their target market :)