I thought a Dropbox to (Walgreens/Sam's/Walmart/Target/etc.) app would have popped up by now. Right click on a pic, select send to your store, pick up an hour later. Maybe not.
Kicksend partners with Walgreens for 1hr photo printing from your iPhone
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#12Do people want to print photos? Wasn't there an article a couple years ago about how Flickr was making less than $1k per year on people clicking the "Order prints" button?
I think it really depends on the user experience. Once you have that dialed in it changes everything.
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#13This is a result of Aviary's API - http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/10/app-developers-can-now-prin...
Re: Kicksend partners with Walgreens for 1hr photo printing from your iPhone
#14Wondering why Walgreen's (or CVS, or fill in your favorite store here) didn't do this already on their own. An app that allows you to scan the camera roll, select pics, then upload to their machines for printing... seems obvious. Is this more feasible because the pics are already mirrored on kicksend's servers, saving upload time?
This is actually based on an iOS and Android SDK that Walgreens created, allowing any photo app to integrate with photo printing.
http://news.walgreens.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=561...
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#15Wondering why Walgreen's (or CVS, or fill in your favorite store here) didn't do this already on their own. An app that allows you to scan the camera roll, select pics, then upload to their machines for printing... seems obvious. Is this more feasible because the pics are already mirrored on kicksend's servers, saving upload time?
Because doing an app well is hard. It's much much easier to wait until someone like Kicksend establish themselves, then give them some money and have them integrate.
And then there's the marketing: Walgreens would peddle the app to people who are in the store and thinking about printing digital photos. A Kicksend user might never set foot in Walgreens, but if he knows about the feature in the app (it's pretty discoverable), he might decide to print a few photos to stick on the empty wall next to his desk.
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#16Do people want to print photos? Wasn't there an article a couple years ago about how Flickr was making less than $1k per year on people clicking the "Order prints" button?
I think people would be far more interested in being able to get a print of their photos in an hour (although there's no reason for it to take remotely that long), than in being able to get them after several days.
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#17What you really need is a version of Redbox that takes your phone, scours it for photos, and prints them for you. It remembers which photos it's printed, so you don't get duplicates between visits. Heck, might as well have it pull credit card info, too.
Walgreens (and others) already have kiosks like this. Haven't used them, so not sure if it's only for raw USB storage or they speak PTP (which most phones seem to have).
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
They would also cost 30% more.
that's not how percentages work. If Apple takes a 30% cut of your price, then you have to raise your price by 42.8% to still make the same amount of money.
Ah, but if you offered the same service to Android users you couldn't do that, because you aren't allowed to price things differently between iOS and other purchasing options. Unless that has changed.
Re: Kicksend partners with Walgreens for 1hr photo printing from your iPhone
#19After 2 (maybe 3) print jobs from different Walgreens, I will never use them again. Get are among the worst in printing, colors were so bad that my own inkject seem better.
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#20Do people want to print photos? Wasn't there an article a couple years ago about how Flickr was making less than $1k per year on people clicking the "Order prints" button?
Do people want to print photos?
Ask a simple question, get a simple answer: yes. Many of my (female, older) relatives use synthetic pigment attached to plant matter with animal proteins as both their primary transfer mechanism and storage media for photos. Ruriko's mother and my mother got virtually instant Dropboxed/Facebooked photos from the wedding, cooed a bit, and then went head over heels when they got the "real" photos. (Not the professional photos, which will be delivered in data and print -- just the same friends' cameraphone/point-n-click candid shots printed out at Walgreen's for $6.23.)