Anybody have any good recommendations for alternatives? We use Cloud Print as a printing solution to allow users in our app to authorize us to send print jobs programmatically to their printers.
Google Kills Cloud Print
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Re: Google Kills Cloud Print
#22Ridiculous - who on earth is making these kinds of decisions?
Could you please not post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? We're trying for a bit better than internet default here.
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#23anyone in their right mind will use any product from Google? They deprecate like 90% of their services...
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#24Would be nice if they could open source it, though I suppose it depends on Google internal frameworks and services none of us has.
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#25It’s unfortunate that Cloud Print will be shutting down. It was a convenient and useful utility. It couldn’t have cost that much to run.
Perhaps the shutdown has something to do with the product possibly being based on Google Talk? The port requirements for the print server include: “5222 TCP (XMPP, using STARTTLS), with a persistent connection to: talk.google.com.” [1]
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#26I can see why people will miss it, but cloud print is always on my short list of things I remove/disable when setting up a phone. How many average people still own/need a printer often enough to not just go use one at the library/kinkos?
We set it up at our condo building lobby on a nice MFP for anyone to use. Was a great, easy to use solution.
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#27Of all the free services to kill, this one really hurts. I just got my parents migrated to using Cloud Print with their Chromebooks and iStuff. As I am providing the usual family-plan IT advice from several timezones away, Cloud Print solved the biggest headache of getting their current project printed to their house or office from wherever they are (or me, if I am helping them). Supporting local printers was a time…
Expect Chromebooks to get killed as well.
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#28It’s unfortunate that Cloud Print will be shutting down. It was a convenient and useful utility. It couldn’t have cost that much to run. Perhaps the shutdown has something to do with the product possibly being based on Google Talk? The port requirements for the print server include: “5222 TCP (XMPP, using STARTTLS), with a persistent connection to: talk.google.com.” [1] [1]: https://support.google.com/a/answer/317917…
This seems pretty plausible considering Hangouts, aka Talk 2, is being shut down the same month. So weird that presumably they glommed their print service on top of chat.
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#29Add that to the Google Cemetary. https://gcemetery.co/google-product-lifespan/
We’ve already got it on killedbygoogle.com
Open Source moves quick. :)
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#30Already in https://killedbygoogle.com/ , that's fast.
I got pinged minutes after this dropped. :) Happy that KBG is open source and we can get it updated quickly.