Yet rather than hailing digital printers as technological triumphs, we tend to take them for granted.
But it ended up being more frustrating than hailing a cab.
Its headlines scream woes and bans, rage and rants, ruing and suing and even more railing than hailing.
At the end of a night of drinking recently, rather than hailing a cab, Trisha DiFazio tapped an app called Lyft on her phone to summon a ride.
Rather than hailing it as evidence of continuity and stability, Russia's new and growing middle class, polling suggests, regard it as a retrograde step.
Flaps, gussets and showy lapels lend the wearer a dynamism, even if his exertions extend no further than hailing a taxi or casing the counters at Saks.
But rather than hailing the Fed's decision not to end this era of easy money last night, stocks fell amid signals a rates rise this year is still possible, with the benchmark Dow Jones index closing down 0.4 per cent.
Over the course of the past century land-use rules have piled up so plentifully that getting planning permission is harder than hailing a cab on a wet afternoon.
Over time, as the service became more reliable, demand would rise — after all, door-to-door service for the cost of a subway ride is far cheaper than hailing a retrofitted yellow cab.
