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> Something as conceptually simple as a docking station that instantly brings your phone into your desktop as a first class integrated app, able to interact wit

> Something as conceptually simple as a docking station that instantly brings your phone into your desktop as a first class integrated app, able to interact with other applications, including browsers, would have been a huge step forward and a massive selling point for Windows Phone What would be amazing about this? I have one subscription to Office365 and I can start working on a document on my Mac and then work on the sabe document on my iPhone, iPad or on the web. I can take calls from my Mac from my iPhone, copy and paste between them, bookmarks are shared, I can send a text message from my Mac, my AirPods seamlessly switch, my iPad works as a second display or I can use my keyboard and mouse to control both. What would one docked device do for me?

P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
what does it do for the switch?
- scarface74 4y ago
  You mean the AirPods? I paired my AirPods to my phone and they were automatically paired to my Watch, iPad, Mac, and two AppleTVs. When I put the AirPods in my ear, whether I am on my Mac, iPad or iPhone, sound is automatically redirected. If I am on my iPad watching a video, and I take a call or start watching something on my phone, the AirPods automatically switch to my phone and the video pauses on my iPad. When I walk out the house for a run with just my cellular Apple Watch, I start listening to music on my Watch and it switches. Switching isn’t automatic for an AppleTV since that would be irritating for a shared device. But it will display a pop up and ask do you want to switch.
  - P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
    heh, I meant Nintendo Switch, the console :) I was responding to the idea that being able to dock a mobile device has no advantages.
    - scarface74 4y ago
      Well shit I just went into a long explanation for no reason :)
      - P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
        All good :) I've always been a huge fan of how integrated Apple products are. I don't own a mac and only a single phone at a time, but even the integration between itunes on windows and that phone is surprisingly good. I have 1st gen airpods. I've read bad things about the newer gens (malfunctions and the like). any experience with them?
        scarface74 4y ago
        My AirPod Pros 1st gen did get the buzzing problem after they were out of warranty. I just went into the local Apple Store and they replaced them for free.
robomartin 4y ago
> What would be amazing about this? I'll cut-and-paste the relevant portion of another comment: "I think the bit you missed before your reaction is that this comment was about the decisions MS made back then. Not now. Not today. In fact quite a few of the replies to my comment are from a current frame of reference." That, in the context of that time, would have been amazing.

P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago

what does it do for the switch?

scarface74 4y ago
You mean the AirPods? I paired my AirPods to my phone and they were automatically paired to my Watch, iPad, Mac, and two AppleTVs. When I put the AirPods in my ear, whether I am on my Mac, iPad or iPhone, sound is automatically redirected. If I am on my iPad watching a video, and I take a call or start watching something on my phone, the AirPods automatically switch to my phone and the video pauses on my iPad. When I walk out the house for a run with just my cellular Apple Watch, I start listening to music on my Watch and it switches. Switching isn’t automatic for an AppleTV since that would be irritating for a shared device. But it will display a pop up and ask do you want to switch.
- P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
  heh, I meant Nintendo Switch, the console :) I was responding to the idea that being able to dock a mobile device has no advantages.
  - scarface74 4y ago
    Well shit I just went into a long explanation for no reason :)
    - P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
      All good :) I've always been a huge fan of how integrated Apple products are. I don't own a mac and only a single phone at a time, but even the integration between itunes on windows and that phone is surprisingly good. I have 1st gen airpods. I've read bad things about the newer gens (malfunctions and the like). any experience with them?
      - scarface74 4y ago
        My AirPod Pros 1st gen did get the buzzing problem after they were out of warranty. I just went into the local Apple Store and they replaced them for free.

robomartin 4y ago

> What would be amazing about this? I'll cut-and-paste the relevant portion of another comment: "I think the bit you missed before your reaction is that this comment was about the decisions MS made back then. Not now. Not today. In fact quite a few of the replies to my comment are from a current frame of reference." That, in the context of that time, would have been amazing.