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Given that nowhere in the article does it say that 14% of people exclusively play on pre-2000 hardware I don't find this that surprising.
I'm more shocked by the last statistic, 11% of American households still use fax. Fax? Fuckin' why? That's like saying people still listen to music on Edison cylinders.
Signatures as a form of authorization I think held up the facsimile tech way past it's best by date
I don't know about you, but here in Europe you just send everything in digitally now
Fax is commonly used at least in the US because it has regulatory recognition as a secure means of transferring information, it's highly interoperable, and it doesn't really have a successor that has caused the network effect to die out entirely.
11% seems slightly higher than I'd expect, but not crazy. Contracts, medical records, interactions with the government are all good reasons to need to send or receive one occasionally. That about 1 in 10 households did last year? Makes some sense.
Seems crazy to me. I can’t imagine that 1 in 10 household even have fax machines. All the stuff you mention is business and medical stuff. Nobody faxes in their medical requests from home.
Except for maybe people who have terrible health problems or those who care for them
Nah. They might do it from work or maybe by email gateway.
Hell it’s only even possible for the 27% of homes that still have a landline. There’s just no way.
There are a lot of people with old technology in their home that still gets used. Fax is still needed for lots of medical things, and not everyone has an office to go to.
Think retired people taking care of sick family members.
Nah. It’s got a big fat [citation needed] from me.
10% of people? Sure I’d believe that 10 % of people have transferred data using fax technology at least once in the past year or something. But 10% of households, and you can’t count email to-fax gateways?
No way.
The citation is in the article which is from a Consumer Reports study. In case you don’t know, they’re very trustworthy.
I’m not attempting to convince you that the figure is accurate because I don’t need to that. I’m attempting to get you to understand that a big portion of the population of the USA are just making do with what they have.
According to American Dad! widespread continued use would have gotten us the blorfer.
I live in an area with a large population of Amish, they fax everything.