Apple By James Plafke Jun. 2, 2014 2:57 pm
The announcements at WWDC 2014 this year weren’t exactly big surprises: Apple announced OS X 10.10 Yosemite, and iOS 8. While the major additions to the two operating systems are notification integration and pseudo multitasking, perhaps the best newly announced feature for some of us is that your desktop Mac can now act as your gigantic, desktop phone.
Thanks to Apple’s new Continuity feature — where all Apple devices can link up and share files, as well as pick up where another device left off — if you receive a call on your iPhone, your desktop Mac will not only act as caller ID, but allow you to use its mic to actually answer the call. Best of all, this feature allows you to receive and respond to text messages right on your Mac.
Yes, this feature is the most useful when you’re playing video games that you can’t pause, and unfortunately chances are you’ll be playing those games on a Windows PC where gaming is still best, but this is still an extremely useful feature. You’ll no longer have to fiddle with things like a Google Voice account or Growl notifications (or whatever) to respond to text messages on your phone through your PC. It’ll be very easy to sneak text messages throughout the day if you have the kind of job that implements draconian rules that prevent you from looking at your phone.
This new feature will be available when*OS X Yosemite and iOS 8 release later this year. Until then, you’ll have to keep your phone in your lap while you play whatever MOBA it is you’re playing nowadays when you need a break from*Hearthstone.
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Thanks to Apple’s new Continuity feature — where all Apple devices can link up and share files, as well as pick up where another device left off — if you receive a call on your iPhone, your desktop Mac will not only act as caller ID, but allow you to use its mic to actually answer the call. Best of all, this feature allows you to receive and respond to text messages right on your Mac.
Yes, this feature is the most useful when you’re playing video games that you can’t pause, and unfortunately chances are you’ll be playing those games on a Windows PC where gaming is still best, but this is still an extremely useful feature. You’ll no longer have to fiddle with things like a Google Voice account or Growl notifications (or whatever) to respond to text messages on your phone through your PC. It’ll be very easy to sneak text messages throughout the day if you have the kind of job that implements draconian rules that prevent you from looking at your phone.
This new feature will be available when*OS X Yosemite and iOS 8 release later this year. Until then, you’ll have to keep your phone in your lap while you play whatever MOBA it is you’re playing nowadays when you need a break from*Hearthstone.
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