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The PC is dying
There is panic in the air: the PC industry as we have known it is beginning to die. PCs are becoming commodity items. The price of PCs and laptops is falling by about 50% per decade in real terms, despite performance simultaneously rising in real terms. The profit margin on a typical netbook or desktop PC is under 10%. The PC revolution has saturated the market. Anyone who needs and can afford a PC has now got one.

At the same time, wireless broadband is coming. Software will be delivered as a service to users wherever they are, via whatever device they are looking at -- their phone, laptop, tablet, the TV. You will not have home broadband; you will just have data on demand wherever you are. You will not have a "computer," but be surrounded by devices that give you access to your data whenever and however you need it.

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/why-steve-jobs-hates-flash.html

Filed under: Apple Cloud Google Microsoft PC Wireless
 

Google Cloud Print

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Google is working on Google Cloud Print, a service that enables any application (web, desktop, or mobile) on any device to print to any printer. The ideal experience is for your printer to have native support for connecting to cloud print services. Under this model, the printer has no need for a PC connection of any kind or for a print driver. The printer is simply registered with one or more cloud print services and awaits print jobs. Cloud-aware printers do not exist yet.

Google wants users to be able to print to legacy printers via Google Cloud Print. This is accomplished through the use of a proxy, a small piece of software that sits on a PC where the printer is installed. The proxy takes care of registering the printer with Google Cloud Print and awaiting print jobs from the service. When a job arrives, it submits the print job to the printer using the PC operating system’s native print stack and sends job status back to the printer.

http://blog.chromium.org/2010/04/new-approach-to-printing.html

Filed under: Cloud Google Printing Technology
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