On Apr 28, 2012, at 10:17 PM, LuKreme wrote: > I have friends who have not had land lines since they moved out of their > parents houses 10 years ago, and you can't fax from a mobile phone (or from > Vonage either).
Sad as it may be, there are many businesses which still operate with faxes and many industries which aren't moving away from it any time soon. I use my Apple USB Fax quite often [one of many reasons Snow Leopard is staying installed!]. But technically, you can fax from mobile phones. I used to do it ages ago well before smart phones became popular [eg: before the Treo]. Granted, the faxes were 100% generated on the phone, but if one needed to fax a piece of paper, well, I did it with my Palm III and modem way back when [and 128kb Sharp organizer with fax/modem attachment]. Yeah, faxing was more popular then, but still. It was doable with phones. I guess these days, fax apps for iPhones require a fax->internet gateway account. It will be nice when companies move away from faxing, but seeing as many aren't, it is still a useful technology for people. It's a shame Apple decided to not include drivers for their fax-modem [and there are still parts of the US which don't have broadband - modems are required for those folks [i live near several of those places!], so if someone needs to replace their aging Mac, they will be in for a rough surprise - no internet access for them! :( ]. /vjl/_______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
