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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Gassee joins the fray
Date: 26 Jan 2015 14:53:58 GMT
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On 2015-01-26, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> Okay, so one time? In band camp? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> was all, like:
>> On 2015.01.22 11:55 , Jolly Roger wrote:
>>> On 2015-01-22, Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>>> Apple needs to completely freeze new feature development and overhaul
>>>> the whole system
>>>
>>> Nobody wants the OS to stagnate. Perhaps it surprises people like you,
>>> but a whole lot of us really appreciate *new* functionality like
>>> Continuity and so on, which would not exist if Apple froze all new
>
>> Continuity has worked exactly 2 times since I got the iPhone 6.  Any 
>> attempt to get it to work to see if it works has failed.  The sole one 
>> time that it would actually have been really, really useful it failed 
>> (with a helpful message to that effect).
>
> I use it and hand-off every single day. It's changed, entirely, how I
> use my iPhone when I'm at home.
>
> Most Text messages I send now are sent from my computer. Or maybe my
> iPad. Nearly never from my actual phone. I don't carry my phone at home
> because my iPad or Mac will ring when a call comes in, so I don't have
> to go check who called me. My iPad gets on the Internet when i am out
> and about by turning on the hotspot in my pocket without my having to
> take out my phone. Brilliant.
>
> Yeah, Continuity is the biggest game-changer in iOS since they added the
> App Store.

Yep. It's huge for both iOS and Mac OS. It's huge for Apple's customers.
And it's part of the whole Back to Mac effort that some here are so
quick to denigrate.

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