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Re:Google Play Store and “over a million apps” could be head... by stephenr on Monday April 25, 2016 @12:45PM (#11565486)
Welcome to the world of Google. Everything is a web service regardless of how practical that is.

Oh your ISP has an outage and you want to print? Well sorry the printer 3 feet from you is a brick until you can send your document to google again.

Who the fuck ever thought that was an acceptable design?

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Re:Google Play Store and “over a million apps” could be head... by agildehaus on Monday April 25, 2016 @04:16PM (#11567000)
Nobody, considering every printer which supports cloud printing also supports Wifi printing and USB printing.
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Re:Google Play Store and “over a million apps” could be head... by millstone on Monday April 25, 2016 @05:24PM (#11567499)
But ChromeOS does not support WiFi or USB printing.
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Re:Google Play Store and “over a million apps” could be head... by hawski on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @03:56AM (#11570139)
It is not true. See my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11565007
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Re:Google Play Store and “over a million apps” could be head... by stephenr on Monday April 25, 2016 @09:50PM (#11568865)
Nobody except the company that a) came up with the stupid idea and b) implemented it as the sole printing option in their OS?
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Re:Google Play Store and “over a million apps” could be head... by jrnichols on Monday April 25, 2016 @01:57PM (#11565991)
> Who the fuck ever thought that was an acceptable design?

Well, Google. :P

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Re:Google Play Store and “over a million apps” could be head... by redditplebs on Monday April 25, 2016 @01:56PM (#11565990)
Well, to be fair, they do mention 'cloud' in the name. What else would one expect off of a cloud feature?
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Re:Google Play Store and “over a million apps” could be head... by stephenr on Monday April 25, 2016 @09:35PM (#11568797)
My complaint isn't that they 'misled' people into thinking their printing solution is better than it is.

My complaint is that they force people to use it because they support no other printing system.

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