How to Live Without Google

Re:How to Live Without Google by EADGBE on Thursday September 14, 2017 @09:57AM (#15248020)

Apple has all this; if you play in their court. But that's who they are. Everything is set up to "synchronize" with one number.

If my phone rings, my watch also does (when it's on my wrist, no cellular required), so does my iPad. I can answer on these devices. I can also make calls on them from my iPhone number.

I don't have a mac at home (because, why desktop?) but If I did it would also ring and allow me to make calls from it too.

iMessages and text messages work the same way, alerts and ability to reply on the watch, synchronization with my iPad and iPhone, and the Messaging app on OSX.

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Re:How to Live Without Google by chrishynes on Thursday September 14, 2017 @10:22AM (#15248291)

Yep, but only if you play in their sandbox.

I'm not going to jump from one walled garden to another, particularly when it's going from GV which is at least cross platform to a Apple only solution.

I'd be tempted if they ever had a Windows app that actually worked and was supported, but they've killed off everything. Or if they had an API for iMessages so third parties could access it.

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Re:How to Live Without Google by EADGBE on Friday September 15, 2017 @02:36PM (#15259542)

> Yep, but only if you play in their sandbox.

So true. Why is this becoming more and more common?

The internet, and all its byproducts, used to be open.

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