We bought Susie’s mom a low-end digital camera this year. Upon opening, her first words were, “Oh, I’ll have to get one of those little photo printers so I can send you guys some pictures.” I, naturally, was appalled—we don’t even own a printer, nor have I given much thought to purchasing one, when I can send people to Flickr or copy Mapquest directions to a laptop or PDA. But apparently some people think the next big market for cameraphone users is making prints from the images. Instead, why don’t we just start teaching people how to use online photo sharing services, then using the services’ built-in print ordering affiliations to make prints when necessary? If the Wall Street Journal is reporting that people aren’t printing cameraphone pictures, maybe that’s not a shortcoming of the printers—maybe printers just aren’t necessary.
It’s a crazy world, though. Someone yesterday tried to fax me something. I just about coughed out my tracheal data shunt.
Camera phone pictures are not printed [Textually]
