HP sent us a note after yesterday’s article on the ridiculous printing app from Yahoo!7 justifying their printer apps. Read it below:
HP continues to develop technology that enables our customers to print as they choose. Our Print Apps technology is turned off by default on each printer to ensure that it is the customer that decides when and how they use it. You are correct in your views on tablets and smartphones providing content, HP customers can view this content via the eStation product featuring a removable touchscreen without the need to print. The Daily news feed is for those customers that prefer summarised and or customised news feeds with the convenience of a hard copy. This will remain the customer’s choice on how and when to print. HP’s new range of printers also feature ePrint and Airprint to ensure customers have a choice of printing methods beyond the use of a PC.
What do you think? Noble attempt at offering consumers choice, or an evil plot to get people to use their printers more, thereby spending more money on ink?
Brock Mackinnon
Thursday, December 16, 2010 at 6:47 PMI bought a C410 Premium Fax Scanner Printer to work with my ipad and iPhone. I log into the website and NO APPS are available for my printer. I guess premium was just the price tag!
Great printer etc but no use having apps (that I will never use) as a selling feature when none are available for it
Steeeve
Thursday, December 16, 2010 at 8:45 PMMeh, I think they just couldn’t think of any better ideas. At the moment the printer apps seem to be complete novelty without much function.
matt
Thursday, December 16, 2010 at 9:08 PMlol, “oh to live in a world where people use their printers more” not exactly the squeal to 1984…
I think the USP of effortless hard copies is kinda cool. for some people.
Bob
Thursday, December 16, 2010 at 11:58 PMI think give’em a break, at least they’re trying instead of sitting on their hands pumping out the same stuff every year.
Chris
Friday, December 17, 2010 at 9:55 AMYou know it’s not all about you. You don’t know everything and what everyone wants to do.
HP are trying to produce products that appeal to a broad range of people, of course they want to sell product that’s what business is about.
Take that into account and read again what you wrote and you will see you are being short sighted and ignorant.
Will
Friday, December 17, 2010 at 10:11 AMI think that generally the leaders of printer companies must be shitting their pants. Who prints things these days? I mean companies do and that a massive market but I’d have to assume thats on a downturn. Domestically I use a printer once every 2 weeks.
McTavish
Friday, December 17, 2010 at 1:03 PMNoone has asked the legality question. Is printing your own newspaper, from someone elses’s content OK?