Thursday, December 9, 2010

IR Blog Post 3 - WWF file format: it's like a PDF that's impossible to print

- Apple has helped to produce a PDF-like file that can only be opened and not printed. This avoids all of the mistakes we make printing a 300 page document. With everything "going green" in front of our very eyes it does not surprise me that a major company would step and and deliver a quiet competitor. This may seem like a useless program, but in a growing paperless and more environmentally aware world any advantage is a huge one. This is a great feature for corporations that may have a 1000 page manuscript and want to avoid the mistake of accidentally printing everything. Overall, this is a great piece of technology if you are going green and want to avoid any silly mistakes.
- Does the "technology boom" relate to the "paperless world" movement?
Why do companies, such as Apple, really care that much about something as small as a program when they already make millions of dollars in profits every quarter?
- I think that the whole world is going to go paperless by the year 2100. Although this may seem like a long time span, imagine ridding the world of every single piece... http://www.convina.com/blog/in-a-paperless-world.htm

1 comment:

  1. I think that this is an innovative idea that could definitely help save a lot of trees and paper. Even though I find it hard to believe that so many people accidentally print abundances of paper accidentally, it is still a good idea to create ways to save paper if something like that were to happen (because i'm sure it does).

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