HP to cut 27,000 jobs

[TheWraith]

5. That too.

Printers were HP's bread and butter for a long, long time, but mobile devices are killing those too--you no longer need to print something out to be able to carry it around, when you can get a tablet. Not to mention paperless archiving and backups.

Though it's partly the fault of design. Back when printers were incredibly vital to everything, HP and the other big printer companies started building their printers in highly eccentric ways, trying to force users to buy only brand name ink, reporting "low ink" with 40% left, and basically trying to leech off the millions of businesses that had no choice but to work with their printers. I have a Lexmark printer for which a color ink cartridge actually costs more than the printer originally did. Printers which were less troublesome and expensive to work with would have given people less reason to seek alternate solutions.