Would be nice, but will NEVER happen. As that would android, windows, etc to use iMessages.
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That is not completely correct. Craig mentioned it verbally as well, when that tile graphic showed up.
a$$le PR department has brain washed you very well if bold and italics are "feature"!
The real question to be made should be why it took so much to have this basic functionality.
Ah sorry, I forgot spicy questions toward the "cult" are forbidden...
The real question to be made should be why it took so much to have this basic functionality.
Ah sorry, I forgot spicy questions toward the "cult" are forbidden...
They have long spoken of RCS as 'not important to their users' (not a direct quote, but words to that effect).
We all know that it's really about lock-in so they are certainly not going to highlight as a feature. I haven't watched the keynote yet either, but I have to assume non-Apple devices will still get the green bubble ostracize 'feature' so that we the elite can continue to poke fun at the unwashed masses.
As an Android user I'm really happy they are keeping the green bubbles to differentiate users. Anyone who thinks they are superior because of a bubble color is a complete and utter dolt. I totally get you are being sarcastic, but I worry more about my kids, my 7 year old is already a professed "Android guy" and it's weird and sad that I have to teach him about being the green bubble.
I agree; new gen like to play like we did with PC. Freedom is smarter... Here I see idevices are preferred by aged people... And by the way, everybody is using wsup
Glad you noted my tone here - thanks for acknowledging. Yes the whole green/blue bubble thing is quite ridiculous and, honestly, while I generally admire Apple as a corporation, the fact that they know and use this social pressure on kids/teens in particular is quite distasteful. Bantering between adults about this is a thing, but kids being bullied over green bubbles is real and I'm sorry that your 7-year old has to deal with that.
Also - just want to say that you sound like a terrific parent. Hope your kid continues to march to the beat of their own drum. Being comfortable with being different equates to being independent in my opinion, and all of us 'mis-fits' tend to prevail later in life.
Yes. You can use the mirror phone as if you were holding it including loading apps.
Glad you noted my tone here - thanks for acknowledging. Yes the whole green/blue bubble thing is quite ridiculous and, honestly, while I generally admire Apple as a corporation, the fact that they know and use this social pressure on kids/teens in particular is quite distasteful. Bantering between adults about this is a thing, but kids being bullied over green bubbles is real and I'm sorry that your 7-year old has to deal with that.
Also - just want to say that you sound like a terrific parent. Hope your kid continues to march to the beat of their own drum. Being comfortable with being different equates to being independent in my opinion, and all of us 'mis-fits' tend to prevail later in life.
Thanks! My son, well for now of course, likes to follow me around and do "my" stuff. So of course he ditched his iPad for a Surface Pro and has an Android phone. My 12 year old daughter, on the other hand, feels she can't live without an iPhone because all of her friends have one. This whole RCS thing has been such a ridiculous burden, and "distasteful" is definitely a term I'd use, but I'd actually raise it to be despicable.
I don't blame Apple much though as why should they be expected to accept Google's RCS fork? I blame the carriers who allowed the GSMA spec RCS to languish and die because they couldn't extract money from it like they did with SMS in the old days, the same carriers who said no when Apple offered them iMessage. To further that I blame governmental regulatory agencies who failed to force the carriers to implement RCS in the first place. I do think it's despicable for Apple to relegate RCS to green bubbles to maintain it's walled garden, but like I said I welcome that and will teach my son to stand up for himself through it and be proud of his choices. What a crazy world when we are discussing such freedom not for race, religion, or sex, but for a freakin' stupid text bubble.
None of this will help if it's a work situation and you're using your employer's Apple ID and not your own.
They didn't say explicitly, but all of the other Continuity features rely on both devices being logged into the same Apple ID-- which would be a horrible idea on a work-owned Mac. I'd be pretty shocked if iPhone Mirroring doesn't have the same requirement.
My little workaround is to park my MacBook nearby and use Screen Sharing to pop into it from time to time during the day. Works like a charm, though it does mean I have to carry it to the office.
