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So how do I introduce my Android phone to my YDP3 MBP?

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ctakah

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May 14, 2012
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So the guy with the difficult to remember last name said that with Y even Android users will be able to make calls and receive/send SMS through their boxes.. HOW?
I have an android phone, and my macbook doesn't even know about it :)
What exactly do I do to "pair?" them?
 
ctakah said:
So the guy with the difficult to remember last name said that with Y even Android users will be able to make calls and receive/send SMS through their boxes.. HOW?
I have an android phone, and my macbook doesn't even know about it :)
What exactly do I do to "pair?" them?
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Step 1: Return your Android
Step 2: Buy an iPhone
Step 3: Install iOS 8 beta on it

Continuity doesn't support anything but iPhones. The guy with the difficult to remember last name lied.
 
ctakah said:
So the guy with the difficult to remember last name said that with Y even Android users will be able to make calls and receive/send SMS through their boxes..
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It wasn’t anybody from Apple at the Keynote. It was never implied nor stated that Continuity or handoff would be supported by Android. It’s not going to work on anything but Apple hardware.

Apple doesn’t have a very good record with Android support on anything they make or sell. About the only area that they support Android with is their Beats music app. Nothing else Apple makes or sells is advertised with Android compatibility AFAIK.
 
Tmelon said:
Step 1: Return your Android
Step 2: Buy an iPhone
Step 3: Install iOS 8 beta on it

Continuity doesn't support anything but iPhones. The guy with the difficult to remember last name lied.
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I feel bad for laughing :b
 
What Craig Federighi talked about was the fact that if you pair an iPhone with a Mac running Yosemite, you can send and receive messages to/from other people's Android phones from your computer.
 
ctakah said:
ooo thank you.
that's kinda brand racism though, no?
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Why is that? Because Android is the competitor, even though it is just a platform from Google running on countless devices?

Imagine the nightmare to have to support hundreds of models from competitors just so you don't call them racist?
 
For file sharing you might give Bittorrent Sync a try; it works a bit like Dropbox but between individual devices rather than a server.

Basically you set it up on your Mac by creating a folder and adding it to Bittorrent Sync, you can then get a key (either read/write or read-only) for your Android phone to use, you can use a QR code for this for simplicity. Your Mac will then sync files your Android phone (and vice-versa if you use a read/write share).

I use it as a secure means of getting files onto my phone without having to go via any servers.
 
benthewraith said:
That app is completely worthless as connecting via a USB should mount the SD card.
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Most older android phones this is the case but not the newer ones that don't have an external sdcard. But yeah, the app kind of sucks. It's slow and buggy. Better off using adb or dropbox.
 
Manic Harmonic said:
Most older android phones this is the case but not the newer ones that don't have an external sdcard. But yeah, the app kind of sucks. It's slow and buggy. Better off using adb or dropbox.
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i use android file transfer with my nexus7 all the time with no problems. and there are apps in the google store to sync contacts, notes, calendar.

of course, these things work in mavericks, not sure about yosemite.

having said all that, i really like my N7, but...prefer iOS, at the end of the day...:D
 
This does raise an interesting question from me. It's been years, but before the iPhone, many phone's could sync with iTunes and Mac's using third party app's. I recall Blackberry provided users with such functionality for OS X.

Is there anyway non-Apple devices can sync media via iTunes? (assuming it's DRM free content, of course iOS app's won't)
 
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