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The problem with Windows PCs and Android phones is Apple?

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jefboyardee

jefboyardee

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I've been amassing this and that on my PCs for over twenty years, on my Androids for over four. One thing that constantly irritates me is the endless trivialities that you have to enter on one, then do it all over on the other.

I'm fed up with having to speak two languages to say one thing and am considering replacing all this crap with a system that shares the same information. That leaves me with keeping my PCs and getting an MS phone, or keeping my android phone and getting something like a Slate 21" AIO to replace my PC with a desktop Android. I doubt that either choice would meet all my needs.

But, not having used one for over ten years, I'm pretty sure that all these problems would just disappear if I switched everything to Apple... much as I hate to say it. Someone prove me wrong.
 
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I agree that MS had the best integration across the board when they were still using the Windows Mobile name. I haven't used one of their devices other than a PC since then truthfully so I really don't know how Windows Phone or whatever they're calling it now is doing. It would be pretty hard for them to mess up that integration though. No idea how Apple products are doing.
 
What information are you trying to share?

What exactly is so difficult?

At what point in using PCs for 20 years did you not have to transition data, files and filesystems?

What do you mean by the phrase, speaking two different languages? Are you writing code?

What Windows files are you having difficulty opening in Android?
 
Okay fr'instance. I've been using Texter on Windows to have all my important and unimportant text expansions stored, each triggered by a short text entry. To transport that ability to Android, I have to find an app that will do that reasonably well (see Text Expansion), then have to manually reenter all those shorts and longs. Just can't help being taunted by not having to do that again of I was already in an Apple world, that it would be done automatically... not that I want to live there.
 
RIP Windows Phone....nobody hardly knew ye

For the most part I've been able to make the third party solve my continuity needs, mainly via Pushbullet, but I also don't have the same requirements as you.
 
oh boy, the new iCloud for windows doesnt still work. it wont sync photos and i really dont understand how it chooses which photos it syncs because Photostream is only showing 119 photos from my ipad (icloud) in my laptop.

apple should rename it. it should be called iClown.
 
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And something that is not terminally trivial?

One utility and it is the end of the world?

I seamlessly move between Windows and Android – Apple stuff is for people with more money, and lack of discernment, than sense – with media files, documents in most flavours and so on. A lot of the Windows utilities that I use come in Android versions – I'm thinking here of BBC iPlayer, Roboform and Mailwasher not to mention Microsoft Office. Even the Ordnance Survey has got its act together with a map tool that works on both platforms.

Even some of my essential Windows hardware works in Android, and on my Samsung BluRay player, despite Logitech's claims that it doesn't.

I guess it would be different were I writing programs for NASA, but mainstream stuff is a doddle.
 
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