#Text messaging app for android and mac os x full

OS X and iOS let you view email threads (aka conversations), but in OS X your conversation shows both what you received and what you sent, so you see the full conversation. iOS's Calendar app should be able to do so as well. I hear this complaint after every iOS release: Why can't I set up complex repeating events like the third Thursday of the month or every month on the 15th in Calendar? After all, OS X's Calendar can do it, as can Android's Calendar app. Both iOS and OS X should let you create groups and address emails to groups.Д¬omplex calendar repeating events. You can't address an email to a group in Mail in iOS either, though you can in OS X's Mail. You can't create groups in iOS's Contacts, but you can see those created in OS X's Mail. There are several such gaps in the fabric that persist even today that Apple needs to remedy. Still, Apple has set the bar for a highly integrated fabric, so when it fails, it's Apple fault. In that regard, Apple's unification state is much better than its competitors'. Google's services - Maps, search, Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Now, and so on - are similar across platforms but not expected to be the same, perhaps because Google doesn't face compatibility issues with a desktop version of Android or a mobile version of Chrome OS.

#Text messaging app for android and mac os x windows

Sure, there's a huge gap between how Microsoft services and apps work across Windows 8, Windows RT, and Windows Phone. They see the Apple promise of a common computing fabric and get upset when they encounter a tear or hole in that fabric. Apple users experience the frustration precisely because the common apps and OS-level functions are almost the same. Persistent inconsistencies among the 'same' apps between OS X and iOS - and sometimes across different types of iOS devices - are an ongoing frustration with users.

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[ All about iOS 7: How Apple's new iOS 7 management APIs change the game for business. They work increasingly the same across Apple's full range of devices - except when they don't. It's even more evident in Apple's applications: Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Reminders, Notes, Messages, Safari, Maps, iTunes (if you include iOS's Music, Videos, iTunes U, and Podcasts apps as part of the iTunes family), iBooks, iMovie, iPhoto, GarageBand, Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. You see that with the adoption of iOS-style gestures and text-entry shortcuts in OS X, as well as in iOS 7's adoption of the App ExposГ©-like view of running apps. Each new version of iOS and OS X creates more integration across Apple's computer and mobile platforms, with a clear goal of treating all devices as optimized instances of Apple's integrated environment.