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Because they're completely different things.

tommorris 14y ago
Sure. But the use case of the Little Printer is to get a little daily digest of interesting and useful things you can take with you. That already exists in the form of smartphones.
- scraplab 14y ago
  There's many reasons why I like Little Printer, but one of those is that it upsets so many people who don't understand that the most functional way of doing things is not necessarily the most enjoyable. People that don't understand why paper has a role in people's lives, why we reach for pens rather than tablet computers, and why while we love the internet, not everyone wants it to use it while stabbing at a glass screen all the time. It's OK to not want one, but your anger at the product should be redirected towards making the tools you prefer, rather than deriding people for theirs.
  - tommorris 14y ago
    Anger? Upset? I'm neither. I'm amused that the Hacker News crowd are so disconnected from reality as to spend £200 on something like this. A friend of mine on Twitter yesterday pointed out that £200 is enough to clothe her two kids for a year. I'll sit back, save my £200, giggle slightly that you call a novelty printer a "tool" (for what, exactly?) and sigh that making such a pointless device gets you the adulation of the crack-addled UX design community who seem more interested in creating "delightful" user experiences than anything that actually improves the world in a meaningful or tangible way.
    - scraplab 14y ago
      Sorry, you just seem very upset about it all. I don't recognise "crack-addled UX design community" you think this belongs to. Everyone I know working on Little Printer is intelligent, thoughtful and very grounded in reality. They've spent a long time working on a product they want to make, solving difficult problems, from logistics and manufacturing through to RF and power electronics. It's expensive, niche and unashamedly beautiful. That's OK. Not everyone has to be curing cancer 16 hours a day. I'm glad that we live in a world where people can make silly, enjoyable things too. It's up to them to produce the product they want to make, and it's up the market to decide whether it's viable. Everyone makes a different value judgment, and that's fine.

Sure. But the use case of the Little Printer is to get a little daily digest of interesting and useful things you can take with you. That already exists in the form of smartphones.

scraplab 14y ago
There's many reasons why I like Little Printer, but one of those is that it upsets so many people who don't understand that the most functional way of doing things is not necessarily the most enjoyable. People that don't understand why paper has a role in people's lives, why we reach for pens rather than tablet computers, and why while we love the internet, not everyone wants it to use it while stabbing at a glass screen all the time. It's OK to not want one, but your anger at the product should be redirected towards making the tools you prefer, rather than deriding people for theirs.
- tommorris 14y ago
  Anger? Upset? I'm neither. I'm amused that the Hacker News crowd are so disconnected from reality as to spend £200 on something like this. A friend of mine on Twitter yesterday pointed out that £200 is enough to clothe her two kids for a year. I'll sit back, save my £200, giggle slightly that you call a novelty printer a "tool" (for what, exactly?) and sigh that making such a pointless device gets you the adulation of the crack-addled UX design community who seem more interested in creating "delightful" user experiences than anything that actually improves the world in a meaningful or tangible way.
  - scraplab 14y ago
    Sorry, you just seem very upset about it all. I don't recognise "crack-addled UX design community" you think this belongs to. Everyone I know working on Little Printer is intelligent, thoughtful and very grounded in reality. They've spent a long time working on a product they want to make, solving difficult problems, from logistics and manufacturing through to RF and power electronics. It's expensive, niche and unashamedly beautiful. That's OK. Not everyone has to be curing cancer 16 hours a day. I'm glad that we live in a world where people can make silly, enjoyable things too. It's up to them to produce the product they want to make, and it's up the market to decide whether it's viable. Everyone makes a different value judgment, and that's fine.