NEST Thermostat thoughts? Experiences?

[JJL]

Hi all

I've been considering getting some of these for my new house. They seem very cool and I've heard great things about them but with that being said, my wife has stumpted me with asking why it's better than our thermostat with a timer?

Her whole arguement is that why would she need something that takes a week/month to learn your schedule when she can just set it on a timer in 15 minutes and it's done forever?

The only thing I could come up with is that Nest can be controled by your iphone/ipad/computer which is kind of cool.

Anything else? I feel like I'm missing something

Help appreciated