Last week, Google notified its users that Cloud Print, Google’s cloud-based printing solution will not receive any support after December 31, 2020. The Cloud Print service has been in beta since 2010. It is a technology that enables users to print data from any Cloud Print-aware application like web, desktop, mobile in the network cloud to any printer. Google also advised its users to migrate to an alternate native printing solution before the beginning of 2021.
In the short support note, Google says that it has improved the native printing experience for Chrome OS users and will continue adding new features to it. “For environments besides Chrome OS, or in multi-OS scenarios, we encourage you to use the respective platform’s native printing infrastructure and/or partner with print solutions provider,” adds Google.
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Google has always been infamous for killing its own products. This year they have retired many products like the Trips app, Google Inbox, and Hire by Google to name a few.
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Many users have expressed their disappointment with the retirement of Cloud Print.
A user on Hacker News labeled Google to be the ‘land of the walking-dead projects’.
The comment read, “Good news: they give you a year to transition.
Bad news: you’ll have to buy a new printer if it doesn’t play nicely with CUPS.
Google really is the land of walking-dead projects.”
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