Shirley
...it should print out every tweet, thereby using up the extortionately-priced inks more quickly?
It was recently joked that Twitter's downtime marked a boom in worker productivity - or would have if World+Dog hadn't been spending its time by posting 'why is Twitter down?' messages on Facebook. So popular are these social networks in the workplace that Lexmark has added the ability to use them through its networked …
It will make the printer more attractive to the sorts of folk who are willing to pay those prices for printer consumables and don't mind paying extra to lock out competitors with special chips, etc.
I just switched a lady to Ubuntu 10.10 and had to tell her to buy a non-lexmark printer to replace her current lexmark one.
Seems there is more demand for twitter on the printer than for linux drivers.
Ah well
They could give the printers email address so they could spam your printer... oh wait...
This is what happens when they fire everyone and have marketing come up with the new features. I guess they are just trying to out stupid HP. If only they spent half the money they spend on making it had to use no-name ink on making the printers work better.
Now were is my toaster / wifi hotspot combo?
...but it is SO wasted on Twitter. There ought to be an RSS reader and simplish HTML parser so we can use our printers to check El Reg and BBC News headlines, plus read the articles that interest us.
Of course, we will know humanity is doomed when your kettle includes an LCD display in the handle that provides scrolling Twitter updates from Stephen Fry.
...time-consuming and completely unnecessary. (Courtesy of Blackadder II.)
Why would anyone, ANYONE, want to tweet from their printer? Oh, you don't need to switch on your computer to get your tweets? But you do need the computer on to make any sensible use of the printer, right?
I think my HP has Scrabble on it. I haven't tried it yet as I have a life.
HP with Scrabble? I'm tempted to make a nasty comment about it being "something to do" while waiting for the tech support helpline...
I dunno, I'm with most of you here. A printer is a thing that sits in the corner and drops paper on the floor. Once in a while I put something on top of it and, by some sort of magic, a copy of that something appears on one of the pieces of paper heading floorwards.
Twitter? No. Scrabble? No. Apps? No. Just, please, cheaper ink. That's ALL.