Do you think Apple will design its own printer? If the engineers from Cupertino develop something new, better, and more efficient in this area, they would completely revolutionize the printer market. That would be great... What do you think?
omg I didn't even know...They did that in the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apple_printers
But no, not really a chance, they don’t do computer peripherals like routers, printers, scanners etc. anymore. Except for mouse and keyboard of course.
still working?Yeah no chance, I had an old Apple laser writer, there’s no money in it for them.
Have you not received emails with a patronising "Think about forests, penguins and fluffy kittens before printing this email" footer tacked on by the corporate email server? (Especially hilarious when that's just enough to make it need an extra page when you print it out...)? Is your bank not pleading with you to opt out of receiving paper statements?What do you think?
They already did: back in the 1980s the Mac, Pagemaker and Apple Laserwriter practically created the "desktop publishing" industry. Their inkjets weren't the first by a long chalk, but they were interesting in the way they let the computer do all the rendering. Like the Airport, Apple got out of the printer business when everybody else and their dog were making perfectly good printers and it was more important to make sure that the Mac and iDevices worked well with those.they would completely revolutionize the printer market.
“Printing” and paper probably will always be around. As one gets older, having constant lights beaming in the eyes tires the muscles etc. (even damages) when looking 24 hours a day (especially reading). unless humanity can rejuvenate eye cells or stop the aging (death process), printed “things” are still needed, regardless of opinion or wanting to hug a tree etc.Have you not received emails with a patronising "Think about forests, penguins and fluffy kittens before printing this email" footer tacked on by the corporate email server? (Especially hilarious when that's just enough to make it need an extra page when you print it out...)? Is your bank not pleading with you to opt out of receiving paper statements?
Printers are a declining technology - they're not going away completely anytime soon but electronic documents are slowly starting to make an impact and environmental concerns are making printers unsexy. We're past "peak printer" and its not a sensible time to jump on that bandwagon - and anyway, Apple would quite like you to use an iPad to carry your documents to that meeting rather than printing them out.
They already did: back in the 1980s the Mac, Pagemaker and Apple Laserwriter practically created the "desktop publishing" industry. Their inkjets weren't the first by a long chalk, but they were interesting in the way they let the computer do all the rendering. Like the Airport, Apple got out of the printer business when everybody else and their dog were making perfectly good printers and it was more important to make sure that the Mac and iDevices worked well with those.