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Re:iPhone X by thinkythought on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @07:45PM (#15234108)
The wild thing is, apple kind of already did this with handoff, and the iOS/OSX syncing. If my phone is ringing in the kitchen, and i have my laptop with me on the couch i'll get an alert and i can answer the call on my laptop. Or iPad. It doesn't even need to be near the phone, as long as they both have wifi or LTE connected. And while ipads don't do multiple users, on OSX if my roommate or someone else signed in then their calls and messages would come through too. When configged right, even texting to/from real numbers works.

They obviously already have this tech most of the way there and just... haven't implemented it?

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Re:iPhone X by zaroth on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @07:52PM (#15234143)
I have to believe it's where they are heading, I just really thought we would be there by now!
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Re:iPhone X by chipotle_coyote on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @09:16PM (#15234665)
I think it still requires faster, more ubiquitous networking. But in general, I think you're correct. This is also probably the long-term solution to how to make iOS a full general-purpose computing device, which to date is somewhat at odds with the "app console" philosophy of iOS's restrictions and the App Store. If I can run anything I want in the cloud with minimal latency, the restrictions on the phone just don't matter as much.
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