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I wish I could say the same. I have tasted the dark side(seamless integration between iPhone and Mac) and can’t imagine moving away from it without a significan

I wish I could say the same. I have tasted the dark side(seamless integration between iPhone and Mac) and can’t imagine moving away from it without a significant irritation of reduced productivity. Some examples of perks to be had because of giving in to the ecosystem.. 1. Copy something on phone, and paste it on any application on Mac (and vice versa) 2. Instantly access all photos taken on iPhone for quick edits on Mac, or even to upload somewhere on a website(passport, dr.license and such). 3. Notes.app that is the same on iPhone and Mac because of iCloud. Notes has become my knowledge base. 4. I also have an iPad. Need to sign a PDF document? Right click and send to iPad where I can use my Apple Pencil. Save the document and it is instantly on my iCloud Desktop. I can’t imagine the independent way of doing things again :-(

spideymans 5y ago
> I also have an iPad. Need to sign a PDF document? Right click and send to iPad where I can use my Apple Pencil. Save the document and it is instantly on my iCloud Desktop. Similarly, you can right click on the Mac desktop and scan a document with your iPhone. Massive productivity booster for anyone shuffling lots of papers.
- rootusrootus 5y ago
  I love reading threads like this. > right click on the Mac desktop and scan a document with your iPhone Had no idea that was an option, until you mentioned it. Hiding right under my nose. Handy feature.
  - lpez 5y ago
    I did not know either. The I decided to check if I could do the same anywhere on the finder and guess what it is possible. I does not work on my network drive, but this is cool. :)
grosswait 5y ago
Back when I used android there were ways to do all of these. I can’t recall the clipboard app, but 2 and 3 are just Google photos and Google keep. #4 doesn’t even require an extra device. You can import a signature from a signed piece of paper into Preview directly.
- deregulateMed 5y ago
  As someone leaving Googles Prison, I'm currently looking for new ways to do this. It definitely cost me a weekend for the photos thing, but at least I'm not locked in.
  - sildur 5y ago
    At least Google Photos works on android and iOS. Apple Photos only works on iOS/macOS.
- h4waii 5y ago
  KDEConnect covers a lot of this, including clipboard sync across multiple devices running the daemon. It's nowhere as polished and Just Works® as Apple's Continuity, but it's great for me with a desktop and laptop running Fedora, and mobile devices running LineageOS.
shorner 5y ago
alternative for 4. open Preview, and use Annotate->Signature to configure a signature to drop in straight on your Mac.
diffeomorphism 5y ago
That does not seems to be unique. You can do all that on linux (or windows) with android as well either out of the box or after installing kdeconnect. Also then you are not tied to icloud but can use google drive/one drive/dropbox/... .
- twmiller 5y ago
  Yes. You can jump through a bunch of hoops to get a similar desktop / phone integration with Linux (or Windows) and Android using a variety of different apps...or you could just use it out-of-the-box since it's all baked in to macOS and iOS. You can tell yourself that it's 'all the same' all you want, but I've tried, and it's not the same.
  - diffeomorphism 5y ago
    > using a variety of different apps One is hardly a "variety of different apps".
  - mixmastamyk 5y ago
    I took a photo signature many years ago and have been pasting into pdfs rasterized by gimp since then. The whole concept is kinda ridiculous, but I never would have thought that it takes a Mac and iphone to do it. There are also privacy implications to all that integration that honestly have me a bit wary of sharing any personal information with my work Mac. Just to pick on another, the idea that anyone would be uploading photos of their passport and drivers license is a bit crazy. That said, I could easily with Ubuntu.
    - Ar-Curunir 5y ago
      Do you hear yourself? “ I paste my signature into a PDF and then rasterize with gimp” Is any normal user going to do that? Why the hell should I have to open a image editing app to sign a PDF?! Why has no Linux PDF viewer added signatures as an option so far? This is why I left Linux for MacOS
js2 5y ago
> Need to sign a PDF document? Right click and send to iPad where I can use my Apple Pencil. You can save your signature in the Preview app and then it's available to paste into any PDF. https://support.apple.com/guide/preview/fill-out-and-sign-pdf-forms-prvw35725/mac https://support.apple.com/guide/preview/fill-out-and-sign-pd...

spideymans 5y ago

> I also have an iPad. Need to sign a PDF document? Right click and send to iPad where I can use my Apple Pencil. Save the document and it is instantly on my iCloud Desktop. Similarly, you can right click on the Mac desktop and scan a document with your iPhone. Massive productivity booster for anyone shuffling lots of papers.

rootusrootus 5y ago
I love reading threads like this. > right click on the Mac desktop and scan a document with your iPhone Had no idea that was an option, until you mentioned it. Hiding right under my nose. Handy feature.
- lpez 5y ago
  I did not know either. The I decided to check if I could do the same anywhere on the finder and guess what it is possible. I does not work on my network drive, but this is cool. :)

grosswait 5y ago

Back when I used android there were ways to do all of these. I can’t recall the clipboard app, but 2 and 3 are just Google photos and Google keep. #4 doesn’t even require an extra device. You can import a signature from a signed piece of paper into Preview directly.

deregulateMed 5y ago
As someone leaving Googles Prison, I'm currently looking for new ways to do this. It definitely cost me a weekend for the photos thing, but at least I'm not locked in.
- sildur 5y ago
  At least Google Photos works on android and iOS. Apple Photos only works on iOS/macOS.
h4waii 5y ago
KDEConnect covers a lot of this, including clipboard sync across multiple devices running the daemon. It's nowhere as polished and Just Works® as Apple's Continuity, but it's great for me with a desktop and laptop running Fedora, and mobile devices running LineageOS.

shorner 5y ago

alternative for 4. open Preview, and use Annotate->Signature to configure a signature to drop in straight on your Mac.

diffeomorphism 5y ago

That does not seems to be unique. You can do all that on linux (or windows) with android as well either out of the box or after installing kdeconnect. Also then you are not tied to icloud but can use google drive/one drive/dropbox/... .

twmiller 5y ago
Yes. You can jump through a bunch of hoops to get a similar desktop / phone integration with Linux (or Windows) and Android using a variety of different apps...or you could just use it out-of-the-box since it's all baked in to macOS and iOS. You can tell yourself that it's 'all the same' all you want, but I've tried, and it's not the same.
- diffeomorphism 5y ago
  > using a variety of different apps One is hardly a "variety of different apps".
- mixmastamyk 5y ago
  I took a photo signature many years ago and have been pasting into pdfs rasterized by gimp since then. The whole concept is kinda ridiculous, but I never would have thought that it takes a Mac and iphone to do it. There are also privacy implications to all that integration that honestly have me a bit wary of sharing any personal information with my work Mac. Just to pick on another, the idea that anyone would be uploading photos of their passport and drivers license is a bit crazy. That said, I could easily with Ubuntu.
  - Ar-Curunir 5y ago
    Do you hear yourself? “ I paste my signature into a PDF and then rasterize with gimp” Is any normal user going to do that? Why the hell should I have to open a image editing app to sign a PDF?! Why has no Linux PDF viewer added signatures as an option so far? This is why I left Linux for MacOS

js2 5y ago

> Need to sign a PDF document? Right click and send to iPad where I can use my Apple Pencil. You can save your signature in the Preview app and then it's available to paste into any PDF. https://support.apple.com/guide/preview/fill-out-and-sign-pdf-forms-prvw35725/mac https://support.apple.com/guide/preview/fill-out-and-sign-pd...