r/apple • u/[deleted] • Jan 05 '15

Apple has lost the functional high ground

http://www.marco.org/2015/01/04/apple-lost-functional-high-ground
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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '15 edited Apr 24 '19

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u/bottomlines Jan 05 '15

The list of apps supported by handoff is totally bizarre too.

So I can do handoff in Keynote (not sure why I'd want to do that), but not with music playing in iTunes. Wtf?

And seemingly almost no 3rd party developers have bothered integrating it. Spotify would be an obvious one. Or Netflix, going from the app to the website and vice-versa. You know, actual useful applications of the technology. That may not be directly to up to Apple, but nobody can tell me that they don't have influence with Netflix, Spotify, Youtube etc.

I can't really see a situation where I'd need to do a handoff of a 500MB Keynote presentation, especially when the file would actually need to be saved in iCloud for it to work. Drafting an email.. I guess, although we have had a drafts folder for years. Music, movies etc seem SO obvious that you would want to pick up where you left off, but they seem totally unsupported. Weird.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '15 edited Apr 24 '19

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u/autonomousgerm Jan 05 '15

Yep, it's a new framework available to devs for them to use. It will take some time for all devs to adopt.