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Arguably, requiring an iCloud account is vendor lock-in, but that’s a subject for a different essay about online storage (Upcoming). In my opinion, these additive tools are so transparent, they don’t replace your existing methods, nor detract from the “My stuff on my computer” model. This is the sort of unobtrusive enhancement I quickly learn to rely upon.ĭropbox, Box.com, and a dozen other utilities replicate your files to the cloud I’m not so Luddite that I dislike automatic, transparent copies to a secure location, but that’s still different from No Connection = No Work, a la the cloud-only collaborative solutions. In fact, this works so transparently that, when it doesn’t, I know I have no or very limited cell signal.
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Or, consider Google Chrome, which shares browser search history between your devices-I am constantly surprised when I begin searches for “Antique steamrollers” on the PC and it’s an immediate choice when I type “A” on my Samsung Sprint Note 3. (Related: Facebook recently added encrypted notifications, using OpenPGP while you might not care whether news that you were poked was spied upon, this is an encouraging step for privacy, especially after they moved to SSL-default access for their webpage.) Presumably these features will extend to WhatsApp as well. Facebook is moving from devices-in-isolation to transparent synchronization: Of your timeline, new notifications, etc., across multiple platforms, and darned quickly, as anyone watching both phone and computer pop up a message notification within half a second can attest. You want your full-size keyboard to type lengthier arguments? So long as both are logged into the same iCloud account, simply pause mid-rant, swap to the other device, and pick right up.Īpple aren’t the only ones doing this. (There’s a developer API for their own apps, too.) Start a text chat on your phone, it gets heated ( This happens). Handoff does the same for Apple Mail, Messages, Safari, Reminders, Contacts, Maps, Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Calendar.
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This is a great use of Bluetooth Low Energy (Your phone has to be within BT range of the other device), and seems to Just Work. Consider Apple’s Continuity and Handoff: Continuity supports answering a call on whatever device is to hand: Your iPhone rings, answer on your MacBook.
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Faster, smaller, much cheaper computers, twenty years of development, plus routine access to broadband, have made “everything on the web” (Or cloud) routine.īut “everything on the web” is quite different from collaborative tools adding to, not replacing, the user’s my-stuff-on-my-device experience. Now, Chromebooks and web-based tools like Google Apps routinely put everything (or nearly everything) on the Web.
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Clearly aimed at Microsoft, who proved them wrong with Windows 95, it still was a marker for the future. In 1994, when Netscape Navigator was the most popular web browser, Marc Andreessen declared the browser would replace the OS. Others, notably ChromeBooks and Salesforce, work fully only when the Internet’s working. That’s been the premise of the PC revolution going back 30 years. I like having my stuff on my computer, reachable even when the Internet’s down. It all relates to his efforts in a major tuneup of us MacBook Pro, but lessons apply to all systems. operating systems and the Mysterious Case of The Unheeded Update, and why video streaming is harder than it should be. In this series, Alex discusses browsers vs.
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