This is something that can easily be done on Windows and Linux also, its just not an out of the box setup like Mac
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IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 9 months agoThey’ve also excelled at seamless integration across devices. I can start an iMessage conversation on my iPhone, switch to my laptop for a while, then to my iPad.
Same thing with phone calls. If my phone is on the other side of the house and starts ringing, then both my laptop and iPad ring as well. I can grab whichever device is closest and answer the call on it.
AlijahTheMediocre@lemmy.world 9 months ago
ferralcat@monyet.cc 9 months ago
It’s pretty out of the box now with windows and android. You have to link the two but then it just works (I don’t find it a useful feature though)
aredditimmigrant@endlesstalk.org 9 months ago
Seamless integration has been around since the first real-time chatrooms though. Again, just making a better UI
For phone calls that’s just VoIP which was around waaaaayyy before the iPhone, Skype was doing something similar in the consumer geek market in 2004/5. They just brought it to the big consumer market, and again, made it 1000x easier to do.