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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?



Nobody, considering every printer which supports cloud printing also supports Wifi printing and USB printing.


But ChromeOS does not support WiFi or USB printing.


It is not true. See my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11565007


Nobody except the company that a) came up with the stupid idea and b) implemented it as the sole printing option in their OS?


> Who the fuck ever thought that was an acceptable design?

Well, Google. :P


Well, to be fair, they do mention 'cloud' in the name. What else would one expect off of a cloud feature?


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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