Steve Jobs Says Printing "Will Come" for iPad

[lincolntran]

are you important enough?

"It will come"

So will death. Personally I'm waiting for the option of a proper cursor (so you can add a mouse) and a proper OS. Cue the fanboys dribbling that I "don't get it", new paradigm, blah blah blah.

The question is "Are you important enough that Steve Job has to change the iPad for you and a few others?" I guess you already know the answer. The iPad will satisfy 90% of its customers if not more and you may not be its target. So if I were you, I will either make one for myself and others like you OR stop complaining and go buy stuff from other companies.

 

[MacTheSpoon]

This would be great. If they add stylus-based handwriting recognition and give the option for a Pixel Qi screen later on, I'd be close to getting one. Otherwise no dice. I'm not dicking around with that stupid keyboard. On my iPhone, fine, but not when I'm trying to do some serious writing.

But yeah, like someone wrote earlier, the best thing would have been a lite version of OS X running on this, so you could install desktop programs. The problem is that this thing doesn't run Office.

 

[LagunaSol]

This would be great. If they add stylus-based handwriting recognition and give the option for a Pixel Qi screen later on, I'd be close to getting one. Otherwise no dice. I'm not dicking around with that stupid keyboard. On my iPhone, fine, but not when I'm trying to do some serious writing.

You really think handwriting recognition would be better for "serious writing" than "that stupid keyboard?" Really? Have you tried handwriting recognition before?

 

[winks360]

So just what is this email address that everyone is emailing??

As far as I can see he could just have his friends email linked to a contact in his address book labeled Steve Jobs. And then emailed his friend and his friend responded??

However if this is a real email what is the actual address, I have a few questions of my own.

 

[AnalyzeThis]

Sent from my iPhone

Hm,

Looks like magical iPad fell out of favorite spot with Mr. Jobs.

I was hoping it would take a while, but boredom took upper hand very soon. Oops.

It may take a while, iPad seems not a priority for Steve Jobs anymore.

 

[LoganT]

Google Chrome OS is apparently solving this issue by allowing you to print from the cloud. Maybe this will be a MobileMe type service. It might take longer to initiate a print from the cloud, but if all the drivers are stored on Apple's servers, you don't need to put 6 GB of printer drivers on the iPad.

 

[min_t]

The notebook is much bigger, heavier and has no touchscreen. Meanwhile, there is no technical reason why the iPad can't have a cursor, mouse and a proper OS.

Relax, nut. Android slate will be out this year with 2 usb ports, hdmi port, vga port, parallel port, serial port, 12in1 memory card port, and finally, a removable battery. Oh, and let's not forget flash 10.1 lite.

The iPad is not for you.

 

[AnalyzeThis]

Google Chrome OS is apparently solving this issue by allowing you to print from the cloud. Maybe this will be a MobileMe type service. It might take longer to initiate a print from the cloud, but if all the drivers are stored on Apple's servers, you don't need to put 6 GB of printer drivers on the iPad.

Many printers could print PDF directly. Bluetooth could serve as a generic access driver for printers on iPads.

 

[Surely]

So just what is this email address that everyone is emailing??

As far as I can see he could just have his friends email linked to a contact in his address book labeled Steve Jobs. And then emailed his friend and his friend responded??

However if this is a real email what is the actual address, I have a few questions of my own.

sjobs@apple.com

It is well known that this actually is Jobs responding.

Or maybe it's someone using this Steve Jobs email generator.

 

[tonyhunterajh]

This is exactly why I waited!

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to know that Apple shoved this iPad out the door to get the expousre and momentum going. An iPad with no native USB or some other native support for peripherals was a non-starter for me. I want a device that doesn't need some jack-leg connection kit or some 3rd-party piece to do simple stuff. When the iPad evolves into what it should have been out of the gate, I will get one. Until then, I'm quite content with my current netbook: iPod Touch!

 

[mex4eric]

sorry.

 

[ranguvar]

Hey macrumors, just wrote an e-mail to Steve and here's what he wrote back:

Hint: What you see is real!

 

[Amory]

Steve jobs would not respond to a question like that....especially not from his iPhone.

I am sure that "it will come", but I doubt that this came from Steve Jobs. He doesn't even answer that email let alone have it connected to his iPhone.

 

[Surely]

Steve jobs would not respond to a question like that....especially not from his iPhone.

I am sure that "it will come", but I doubt that this came from Steve Jobs. He doesn't even answer that email let alone have it connected to his iPhone.

Why not? You are merely speculating. It is widely accepted that these short and blunt responses are from SJ. Apple has never denied that they are his responses.

Maybe he typed it, maybe he didn't. However, I am sure that he approves each message that bears his signature.


Sent from my iPhone <-----notice how you can type that at the end of a response to promote one of your products.....

 

[MacFly123]

"It will come"

So will death. Personally I'm waiting for the option of a proper cursor (so you can add a mouse) and a proper OS. Cue the fanboys dribbling that I "don't get it", new paradigm, blah blah blah.

Haha, that honestly just made me laugh at how stuck in the past you are! How about you just get green text on a screen and type code?

Printing has been rumored for a while and will obviously come when the iPad gets 4.0 in the fall. There is a reason why the iPad is not getting 4.0 in the summer with the iPhone... There will be additional iPad specific features that are not yet announced!

 

[RobbieS]

What's his email?
I have a few real questions for him?

 

[firewood]

Nothing would have to be redesigned to use a mouse. Display an arrow cursor whenever a mouse is detected; make it disappear when the user starts typing and re-appear when the mouse is moved. Mouse clicks are the same is taps with your finger. Obviously no changing mouse cursors, still no "hover" actions because there is no code there for them, but making a mouse "work" like a physical keyboard is no problem.

You can try this with the free iPhone SDK Simulator. There will be things a user will want to do with a mouse that iPhone apps just don't support. And other things a user will want to do with an app that a limited click-only mouse interface doesn't allow. Both turn out to be a bother. As a result, an app will feel much better and be more usable when testing the UI an actual device, as compared with testing an app's UI only on the Simulator. Just ask a developer who is stuck with your method when using the Simulator.

Think of Apple's new paradigm as the new one-button mouse, where one button (per finger) is the surface of your iPad. There is no other option they will present to confuse the typical user early in the paradigm's life-cycle.

 

[shamino]

It will be interesting to see how Apple solves this issue.

Gut feeling is that it will be different than the traditional approach using device/OS side print drivers like a regular desktop/laptop print solution.

Interestingly enough, I wrote a blog post about this not too long ago, inspired by that silly photo of an iPad on a copy machine.

You definitely wouldn't want to load up an iPad with printer drivers. That would consume a ton of space and for little reason. Far better to come up with a very small number of drivers for generic categories of printers (plain-text, PCL and PostScript, and perhaps PDF) and provide network printing using the three standard interfaces (Apple, Windows and UNIX/LPR).

Macs and Linux systems will be able to take PostScript directly, sending the result to any connected printer, thanks to CUPS. Lots of networked laser printers will be able to directly support PCL and PS. And for the rest (cheap printers attached to Windows PCs) it's not too hard to install a GhostScript-based printer driver and share that, allowing PS printing to whatever Windows-compatible printer you have attached. Apple could even ship the GS-based software with a friendly installer.

It will be interesting to see if I've guessed right or not.

 

[dougb256]

Hm,

Looks like magical iPad fell out of favorite spot with Mr. Jobs.

I was hoping it would take a while, but boredom took upper hand very soon. Oops.

It may take a while, iPad seems not a priority for Steve Jobs anymore.

So, what color is the sky in your universe?

 

[steveh]

"It will come"

So will death. Personally I'm waiting for the option of a proper cursor (so you can add a mouse) and a proper OS. Cue the fanboys dribbling that I "don't get it", new paradigm, blah blah blah.

Well, at least you know you don't get it.

 

[Hal Itosis]

"It will come"

So will death. Personally I'm waiting for the option of a proper cursor (so you can add a mouse) and a proper OS. Cue the fanboys dribbling that I "don't get it", new paradigm, blah blah blah.

Well, at least you know you don't get it.

It seems inevitable that there's always some silly comment on page 1 which pulls the entire topic (printing in this case) off kilter. If a mouse is ever **really** needed for the iPad, then some 3rd-party will provide it. Simple as that. Folks whining about Apple's lack of mouse support for the iPad are just barking at the moon.

I print wirelessly via PrintCentral from EuroSmartz; check it out.

Good info there... that's much better "page 1" material (which unfortunately got pushed over to page 2 by all the barking).

 

[LagunaSol]

It seems inevitable that there's always some silly comment on page 1 which pulls the entire topic (printing in this case) off kilter.

Indeed. Yet another argument for a Like/Dislike button and correspondingly dealt-with (fade to gray?) posts on these forums.

 

[captain kaos]

The more truthful answer would have been:

" It will come. Its just one of the many things we're holding back for the version 2 ipad next year, so you have to go out and buy that one as well.".

Yours Sincerely

S Jobs."

 

[RebelScum]

I'm glad Apple isn't trying to cram a desktop OS on a portable touchscreen device.

Yeah, a full-featured OS on a PMD. Who wants that?!? Such things are but the fevered dreams of madmen.

 

[thedoctor9]

This would be great. If they add stylus-based handwriting recognition and give the option for a Pixel Qi screen later on, I'd be close to getting one. Otherwise no dice. I'm not dicking around with that stupid keyboard. On my iPhone, fine, but not when I'm trying to do some serious writing.

But yeah, like someone wrote earlier, the best thing would have been a lite version of OS X running on this, so you could install desktop programs. The problem is that this thing doesn't run Office.

Just to let you know, there is this software named iWork.