Comment Re:Umm, what? (Score 1) 395
This raises a good point. I've had interactions with folks who need me to fax something to them - and I no longer have anything that can fax. The point - there are no Easy replacements for fax.
Sure - I can email a scanned document to somebody. But it isn't easy. A fax - I pop the pages in, tap out a phone number - and bing zzziip-zzziiip it goes. My HP Printer/Scanner required A) my PC to be on, B) put the document up on the screen as a PDF to be saved C) required me to follow whatever email steps my system needed. It isn't all in one package.
If only we all had "phone numbers" instead of email addresses. I could call you, or "fax" you, all negotiated by the device.
But it doesn't exist yet. Voice Mail has a plan B. Texting or Emailing. And for those of us leaving email behind - "Social" media corp websites for collaboration and communication.
Fax is more than voicemail. It was a technology package.