Hi, I totally agree here. When handoff was first introduced, I wonder why you can shift the call from your non cellular device to your phone, Mac, iPad, etc, but not the other way around. > On Dec 26, 2015, at 10:51 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland > <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It's not really a big deal over all, but I do think it's inconvenient. > Technically, this issue goes even further out though than just the Apple > Watch, as you can't do this with I O S devices in general that I know of. > > Let's say I'm in the car, and I have my IPhone in my pants pocket. Now, I > either get an incoming call, or need to make an outbound call. No problem. > Just raise my wrist, and make it for now on the watch. No need to yank out > my phone. Once I get to my destination, get out of the car, grab my phone, > unlock it, and then quickly double tap on the status bar. Bam! I just > handed that call on my watch off to my phone, and now can continue on the > phone. > > That's great, but, what if I'm at home, and all of a sudden time gets away > from me, now I have people downstairs waiting for me to leave with them. I > don't want to have to be figetting around with my IPhone while trying to open > the cardoor, while trying to put on my seatbelt, while standing on my head, > barking like a dog. My point is, There is no way that I see to hand an > IPhone call off to the watch. I can go the other way, watch to phone, but > not phone to watch. > > If I could go phone to watch, then come time to leave, I could just hand it > over to the watch, already happily on my wrist, throw the phone in my pocket > while walking downstairs, and be done with it. > > I also don't see why Apple can't make this an option to go from the phone to > an IPad or a mac. If you can go from them to the phone, then why not the > oppisit way. Seems a little stupid to me that it wouldn't be A-Syncronis. > > Maybe I'm just overthinking things. Who knows! > > Chris. > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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