I'm getting tired of "hey guys check out this really cool, half-baked, and for absolutely no reason, single-platform technology".
I'm getting tired of "hey guys check out this really cool, half-baked, and for absolutely no reason, single-platform technology". Yeah iMessage/Facetime and Google Hangouts is really cool but we're still using SMS and voice calling because half of my friends have Android and half have iPhones. Worse yet, we're all using Facebook Messenger or Snapchat because at least there is some consistency between vendors there, unlike with SMS. Handoff/Continuity is great, but if I can't hand off calls from my iPhone to my Windows desktop or apps to my Linux laptop, who cares? I'm never going to have a chance to use that. Oh look at this cool site that uses Chrome's new features. What a shame I use Firefox. And Google Wallet/Apple Pay is nifty, but I have to enter my card info twice if I switch between phones, and if I'm using a Windows Phone, I'm still using my plastic. We forced Microsoft to stop locking out their competitors with proprietary versions of things that should be standards, and we did that more than 15 years ago. What progress have we made since then?
Posted by freehunter on Feb 23, 2015, 9:11 PM
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I'm getting tired of "hey guys check out this really cool, half-baked, and for absolutely no reason, single-platform technology".
I'm getting tired of "hey guys check out this really cool, half-baked, and for absolutely no reason, single-platform technology". Yeah iMessage/Facetime and Google Hangouts is really cool but we're still using SMS and voice calling because half of my friends have Android and half have iPhones. Worse yet, we're all using Facebook Messenger or Snapchat because at least there is some consistency between vendors there, unlike with SMS. Handoff/Continuity is great, but if I can't hand off calls from my iPhone to my Windows desktop or apps to my Linux laptop, who cares? I'm never going to have a chance to use that. Oh look at this cool site that uses Chrome's new features. What a shame I use Firefox. And Google Wallet/Apple Pay is nifty, but I have to enter my card info twice if I switch between phones, and if I'm using a Windows Phone, I'm still using my plastic. We forced Microsoft to stop locking out their competitors with proprietary versions of things that should be standards, and we did that more than 15 years ago. What progress have we made since then?
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