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Google Kills Cloud Print

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Re: Google Kills Cloud Print

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Post by snailmailman »

mathw wrote: post #101
ripdog wrote: post #75

>It's enterprise-ready Hahahahahaha oh man they actually wrote that. Sorry for the useless comment, but I just wonder how many companies got conned into basing their printing infrastructure on yet another Google experiment. I don't think it really matters, of course. Android phones have a full set of manufacturer-specific printing drivers which work fine over the local network, and geofft noted upthread that ChromeOS…

Sadly not for all printers, my printer requires an awful app that does everything itself. Not acceptable! But yeah, Cloud Print doesn't seem to have been particularly widely used or supported.

I feel the opposite. My printer supports cloud print, OR an awful app, or just a normal print server thing (idk how printers work)

I've always had trouble using the printer except when using cloud print. Cloud print at least works every time, if i try to print another way it often fails silently.

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Post by manderley »

mathw wrote: post #101
ripdog wrote: post #75

>It's enterprise-ready Hahahahahaha oh man they actually wrote that. Sorry for the useless comment, but I just wonder how many companies got conned into basing their printing infrastructure on yet another Google experiment. I don't think it really matters, of course. Android phones have a full set of manufacturer-specific printing drivers which work fine over the local network, and geofft noted upthread that ChromeOS…

Sadly not for all printers, my printer requires an awful app that does everything itself. Not acceptable! But yeah, Cloud Print doesn't seem to have been particularly widely used or supported.

Try out the "Mopria print service" (mobile printing alliance), most big manufacturers are part of it. They provide a generic driver app for Android that works for mobile printing with models from multiple manufacturers.

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Post by gdulli »

bpodgursky wrote: post #115

99.5% of the people upvoting this article had neither used nor heard of Cloud Print before seeing this headline. Look, I too got annoyed when Google killed Reader. It sucked for a couple days. I moved on. This doesn't even register as a product. It was an experiment that wasn't needed, so they killed it. Holding onto every silly project you ever worked on doesn't make you responsible, it makes you a directionless hoa…

The point isn't that we care about this product. The point is that the company's reputation is important because it's into so many things, and this news is a relevant signal about it. Hearing about this can inform your decision to stay off the next Google product and later have to deal with the inevitable hassle of losing it.

Re: Google Kills Cloud Print

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Post by asdfasgasdgasdg »

ripdog wrote: post #75

>It's enterprise-ready Hahahahahaha oh man they actually wrote that. Sorry for the useless comment, but I just wonder how many companies got conned into basing their printing infrastructure on yet another Google experiment. I don't think it really matters, of course. Android phones have a full set of manufacturer-specific printing drivers which work fine over the local network, and geofft noted upthread that ChromeOS…

> I just wonder how many companies got conned into basing their printing infrastructure on yet another Google experiment

I would imagine very few, or else Google would be keeping it around. I would guess that Cloud Print basically didn't take with either consumers or enterprises, and as a result Google no longer wants to keep doing it.

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Post by geofft »

akrulino wrote: post #135
geofft wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Printers are standardizing on a thing called "driverless printing," based on having some common Page Description Languages (or having the printer have support for handling a PDF directly): https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSDriverlessPrinting#Driverless_Pr... Each printer having its own driver is sort of like ... each terminal having its own escape sequences. When printers and terminals were purpose-built electronics with l…

You mean like Postscript 20 years ago?

With less Turing-completeness and the ability to execute on <$100 consumer-level printers, but basically yes.

Re: Google Kills Cloud Print

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Post by j45 »

areoform wrote: post #62

Google has the corporate equivalent of ADHD. Having talked with ex-googlers and current googlers, the problem seems to be deeply baked into their culture. The incentive structures seem to favor the sexy over the boring, making it much more likely that someone will get promoted for launching products versus growing one. The fix seems to be obvious, create a separate path, a maintenance and growth hacker path, where pe…

Probably more indicative of the amount of usage it got vs the data it generated for them
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