This is actually a pretty cool idea. I've got no use for it directly, but I can see that many people that would benefit from it.
Nice, innovative, and actually useful. I wish them luck.
Nice, innovative, and actually useful. I wish them luck.
The more I look into it though, the less bullish I am on it.
There is a lot of black magic here that creates that "too good to be true" product. It's still a great idea and will likely have many fans, but this is a pretty capitalistic product.
Point is that it's not for us to say what a person does with their money. If the only benefit of this is that it gets a person through college or post college table hopping without a completely destroyed credit, perhaps it is worth the $150.
And this sounds close to the argument that people make against the poor having smartphones, without realizing that there are lots of cheap smartphones out there, and generally this is their own connection to the internet, which is increasingly needed for everyday life.