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Re:Leaving the Apple ecosystem behind by phire on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @03:30PM (#28620697)
There is no windows for phones (anymore). If you aren't using an apple phone, you are pretty much forced to use google's android (or one of the various linux phones with little financial backing)

Windows/Android can be considered a natural pair, Microsoft seem to think so. Personally use Linux/Android pair, and I've been vaguely considering switching to an iphone to avoid Google.

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Re:Leaving the Apple ecosystem behind by tomc1985 on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @03:31PM (#28620704)
Windows/iPhone isn't a bad pair either, provided you're not drinking the cloud services koolaid
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Re:Leaving the Apple ecosystem behind by schraeds on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @04:14PM (#28621170)
How do they integrate at all? Windows has ability to link to a android phone to view texts, place calls etc, but no such link exists for iPhones and Windows.
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Re:Leaving the Apple ecosystem behind by phire on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @03:56PM (#28621026)
Or if you want to do any form of app development.
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Re:Leaving the Apple ecosystem behind by tomc1985 on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @04:13PM (#28621161)
If I ever wanted to get into iOS development I'd probably purchase a cheap Macbook Air for the bare minimum of stuff and use one of the multiplatform SDKs that can produce iOS builds alongside every other platform
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