Giving up the iPad-only travel dream

Re:Giving up the iPad-only travel dream by ksec on Friday August 25, 2023 @10:01PM (#37269261)

Which is precisely what Apple wants. They want each devices to be their own, they want you to buy them all, and to carry them all.

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Re:Giving up the iPad-only travel dream by heisenbit on Saturday August 26, 2023 @03:46AM (#37270668)

> An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator... these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone!

Apple got there by tearing down device barriers. Now …

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Re:Giving up the iPad-only travel dream by inkyoto on Saturday August 26, 2023 @06:58AM (#37271638)

Buy them all – maybe.

Carry them all – hardly.

Apple has invested a lot of time and effort into making full continuity across their entire computing ecosystem actually work, which allows the user to pick only one device that is the best poised for the task at hand.

The user can switch devices as they please and carry on on another device from where they left off on the previous one. It is seamless.

Of course, the user can also choose to use all of the devices at the same time if that is what they want or it merely suits them.

Microsoft and Linux ecosystems, however, do not have the same level of completeness and continuity and convenience.

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Re:Giving up the iPad-only travel dream by tomjen3 on Sunday August 27, 2023 @02:42AM (#37280027)

Not really. Handoff doesn’t work if my starting device is not on when I begin to switch. My flow is to put my MacBook in sleep mode and then grab my phone. No handover there.

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