This week I bought a new printer for our house. It’s an ok printer. Pretty standard actually for today’s crop of multifunction devices. It prints, it faxes, it copies and it’s home network ready. Even connects to our home router wirelessly with WPS. All good stuff. In truth, there was really nothing to distiguish this printer from the other 11 sitting next to it at the store outside of some manufactuer names and price differences.
Thinking back on it though, I know what one feature prompted me to buy that particular printer over all of the others that I looked at. I think I just had to work through some denial issues about what that meant for me as a consumer, and perhaps a person, when that became the feature I look for the most in a home appliance.
I could print to it from my IPhone.
I’m not entirely certain when “mobile me” began to replace “old deskbound me.” I also refer to him as “20th century me,” by the way. I’m going to have to go ahead and blame Apple for this one, though. Like most people, I’ve had a cell phone for a few years now. I’ve also performed my daily job activities on a laptop for about the last 8 years. Of course this latest laptop is firmly docked to dual monitors 95% of the time any more. So I’m not sure either of those really prompted me to move away from a sendentary life-style.
Nope, it was buying an IPhone last November that did it. Obviously I was late to that game, but I’ve not really wasted alot of time getting caught up.
I read my email from that phone as often as I read it from the computer I’m typing this on. I browse the web on it. I play the usual suspects of games on it. It’s pervasive.
Quite honestly, the idea of printing from it never even occured to me until I saw in a review (of the printer I purchased) that I could. Then it was a no-brainer.
I don’t see Moble Me, hereafter refered to as just “MMe”, waning anytime soon. In fact, until just a few weeks ago, I was contemplating bridging the gap between our current desktop bound home computer network and the eventual laptop and desktop home computer network by intruducing an IPad into the mix.
Just because.
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