Google cloud print shows promise, despite limitations

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Date: Wed, Mar 9, 2011 12:27 pm
Subject: Google cloud print shows promise, despite limitations

Increasing popularity of mobile devices has created demand for cloud printing services (CPS), which promise to let users print from wherever they are. We predict that 90% of the Global 1000 will use CPS by 2015. Yet CPS is "emerging" on Gartner's IT Commoditization Curve: Many providers are competing to create the dominant standard. Google Cloud Print signals Google's intent to play in the CPS market.

Google Cloud Print makes the mobile printing experience easier for users. Configuring Chrome, adding printers and printing are simple, despite a few reports of failed print jobs. Google Cloud Print is printer-manufacturer-neutral: users can send a printing job to any printing device that has been added to the service by Chrome.