For Microsoft, whose only play left to make in mobile is to offer services on others' platforms, that means it's often on the outside looking in.Īndroid, on the other hand, is an inherently more open system, and that gives Microsoft a lot more wiggle room. This underscores just how much of a walled garden Apple's ecosystem is, and how much Apple holds up in-platform features like Continuity (where you can pick up on your Mac what you were doing on your iPhone) and iCloud (which syncs photos, videos, files, and other data among Apple devices) as premium features for customers who buy into that ecosystem completely. eventually (Microsoft only said a preview was "coming soon").
As for iPhone users, some kind of app version of that will come to iOS. The platform split continues: Starting in a preview today, Android users will be able to view their Windows Timeline on their phones via the Microsoft Launcher.
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Your Windows 10 Timeline (introduced in the April 2018 Update) will also incorporate what you did on your phone, although, again, only if the activity touched a Microsoft app. The Your Phone app's abilities are severely limited for iPhone users, amounting to letting you pick up on your PC where you left off on your phone… as long as you're using the Microsoft Edge browser in both places. No need to email pics to yourself anymore. Transferring photos, likewise, becomes a drag-and-drop exercise when you want to move them from phone to PC, letting you use Windows' strong inking features to mark up pics, or just toss them in Word or PowerPoint files. While there have been all kinds of different solutions for this for a long time (brands that straddle PC and Android, like Samsung, have been particularly active here), it's nice to have something plug-and-play for any Android phone (Nougat or better). First and foremost, it lets you easily text from your PC. The phone companion app in the Windows update, Your Phone, has a multitude of abilities when paired with and Android handset.
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