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Dell's new software to put your iphone or android on your pc
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It's about time Dell does something creative. God knows they have acquired a bunch of talent with the EMC purchase.
On iPhones, you'll be able to see and reply to incoming calls and messages, but receiving alerts from other apps like Facebook and Whatsapp is limited to Android.
How are they able to do this? I assume you won't be able to use iMessage?
How are they able to do this? I assume you won't be able to use iMessage?
It is the little things like that which will draw me away from the Mac/iOS ecosystem - when Apple half asses things for too long then people like me get antsy and start looking for fertile soil to migrate to.
I think its odd they talk about this having more "interoperabiilty" than other solutions, but I believe it requires a Dell laptop. Samsung already has a fairly good solution that does similar things with Samsung devices. But I don't think anyone except Microsoft is really going to solve this, and they are well on their way to doing so.
As much as I appreciate advances like great cameras and GPS on current smartphones, there are still things that those older phones could do that is not possible with new ones.
Back-in-the-day(tm), when I would travel cross-country, I'd take only my Audiovox SMT5600 smartphone, BT keyboard, and stand as my only computing device... taking notes, working on documents, video, music... back when my eyesight was better.
