Im guessing there are still lots of people that require physical printing that use Chromebooks and the like. Is there a built in printing solution for them now? Because when the Cr48 was out the Chrome team recommended using Cloud Print.
Google Kills Cloud Print
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#12Bad timing for an announcement considering the (IMO valid) concerns about Stadia's lifetime.
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#13I mean, why wouldn't they? With all the people out there using it without complaints.
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#14Having helped build a product based on Google cloud print I can only say I'm not sad.
At the time it had a ton of political backing, and so we were kind of compelled to use it despite the fact that 1/ it was a nightmare from an authentication perspective for our use case, 2/ it had "I've forgotten how to count that low" rate limits, and 3/ didn't map cleanly onto anything we were trying to do.
Nevertheless, we wound up shoehorning it in at the insistence of both that team and our management until it predictably failed without support, at which point it became a crisis.
May something better replace it, but I won't be shedding any tears for what I saw.
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#15Im guessing there are still lots of people that require physical printing that use Chromebooks and the like. Is there a built in printing solution for them now? Because when the Cr48 was out the Chrome team recommended using Cloud Print.
>Is there a built in printing solution for them now?
the linked article and the original source from google both cover this.
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#16Im guessing there are still lots of people that require physical printing that use Chromebooks and the like. Is there a built in printing solution for them now? Because when the Cr48 was out the Chrome team recommended using Cloud Print.
I know with a lot of HP printers you can just send whatever you want printed to a special HP email address as an email attachment and it will print.
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#17Ridiculous - who on earth is making these kinds of decisions?
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#18Already in https://killedbygoogle.com/, that's fast.
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#19Bad timing for an announcement considering the (IMO valid) concerns about Stadia's lifetime.
In an industry where 80% of startups disappear, it's inevitable that they have to shut down products at a rate not much smaller than their introduction of new products. And if "Google Cloud Print" is considered significant, then that will result in frequent headlines of "Google is shutting down ".
Considering how annoying I find this meme even though I have absolutely no stake in it, people on the inside are probably telling their therapists about it. The better part of a decade has passed since Google Reader was shut down, and it's still the go-to reaction of people who want to seem oh so unique, rebellious, and cynical.
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#20I think this again points to why google struggles with consumer products. It appears that google's strength in technology sometimes lets them leap frog competitors by bringing a better product to market, they seem to screw up getting the whole of business behind it. Sooner or later the competitors catch up with the technology and do the other things right.
I really don't understand why they didn't keep this announcement under wraps and extend the service for another year, as this is exactly the kind of story they don't need with the lackluster launch of Stadia. Google really can't bring large parts of the business together to focus on a strategic goal which seems to result in this flailing around product to product.