I've just started using the new handoff feature of IOS 8 and must say I am singularly impressed by it. For those not familiar with it, it allows you to start doing something (eg composing an email) on one Idevice and then seamlessly pick up from where you left off on another idevice. So for example you could be out and about with just your phone, start an email but then finish it when you get back to your desk on the laptop.
As an example and an exercise in using it i am flying today from Nairobi to Leeds. I started this message on my phone while queuing to board the plane. I am picking it up at this point with my iPad while sitting in my seat whilst I can still use Bluetooth (the transport mechanism for handoff). I will complete it and post it on my laptop in the lounge at Amsterdam while waiting for my connection.
Now, this is nothing that can't be achieved other ways e.g. cutting and pasting it into an email to oneself but it's the seamless nature of it that makes it so appealing. I think the concept of having different sized devices for different scenarios has finally come of age.
(From my laptop)
There are a lot of things about the supposedly seamless nature of the Apple ecosystem that I absolutely hate, but hats off to them for this.
As an example and an exercise in using it i am flying today from Nairobi to Leeds. I started this message on my phone while queuing to board the plane. I am picking it up at this point with my iPad while sitting in my seat whilst I can still use Bluetooth (the transport mechanism for handoff). I will complete it and post it on my laptop in the lounge at Amsterdam while waiting for my connection.
Now, this is nothing that can't be achieved other ways e.g. cutting and pasting it into an email to oneself but it's the seamless nature of it that makes it so appealing. I think the concept of having different sized devices for different scenarios has finally come of age.
(From my laptop)
There are a lot of things about the supposedly seamless nature of the Apple ecosystem that I absolutely hate, but hats off to them for this.
excitable apple users see any old feature years old gets them wet, I heard big screens are cool now too. It is this blind loyalty, refusal to look what else is available out there that keeps apple rolling in cash.