Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> >   Nothing stops anyone from making a word processor or spread sheet for
>> >   the
>> > iPad either. In fact, Apple is encouraging people to do so.
> 
>> Yeah, great, until you want to print your document out. :-)
> 
>   Actually since iPhone programs can make http requests, one could devise
> a system where you send the document to your PC via http, and have the PC
> print it out... Contrived, but entirely possible.

The Internet Printing Protocol is based on HTTP, and there are printers that 
support it directly (but more likely you'd be talking to CUPS or something 
like that)...

And iPhone programs can make arbitrary TCP/IP connections anyway.

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