Re:Giving up the iPad-only travel dream
by ubermonkey on Saturday August 26, 2023 @07:57AM
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Apple people, and people who have shifted away from "texting" to using some other platform (e.g. whatsapp) often shift between computer and phone for this job.
But in the US at least, people outside those groups typically don't. I don't think you can (easily) send SMS from a laptop as though it were your phone.
(Yes, it could be argued that the two groups in the first paragraph are actually ONE group, since Apple "texting" is silently-to-the-user shifted to iMessaging, i.e. another app.)
>I don't think you can (easily) send SMS from a laptop as though it were your phone.
Sure you can--at least with Macs. I do it all the time to both Apple and non-Apple users.
Re:Giving up the iPad-only travel dream
by BuckRogers on Saturday August 26, 2023 @10:10AM
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Those days are over. I’ve been using Intel Unison on my 11th gen desktop for a long time now. Microsoft Phone Link also works but isn’t limited to Intel, it’s inferior but it does the job. Both work with iOS.
Re:Giving up the iPad-only travel dream
by ubermonkey on Saturday August 26, 2023 @09:58PM
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I mean, the point of my post was that it IS easy for Apple users; just not people outside the group.
That's interesting, for me, any texting (usually via whatsapp or signal) is far, far more convenient on the laptop than on the phone, so far that if I expect a longer response, I'll rather find a place to sit and pull out the laptop than try to type all of it on the phone; and for calling people also videocalls on laptop are more convenient for me than the phone, so again, if it's more than a one-minute conversation, I'll rather put down the phone and call them through the laptop.