Your phone can replace your scanner for $30
THE SO WHAT
Paid utility apps like a $29.97 lifetime iScanner license show how much office hardware is quietly collapsing into software. If you're selling SMB tools around documents, signatures, or OCR, assume the capture device is the phone and compete on workflow, not on scanning itself.
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