Instant Message: What we all used to send back in the day using AIM, ICQ, and MSN Messenger (or, if you were a power user, Adium or Trillian).While I don’t claim that the descriptions below are necessarily definitive, they are sufficient for the purposes of this article. Even the terms “message” and “text” are, at best, context-specific, and at worst, vague and ambiguous. One of the reasons cross-device texting is so complex is the fact that there are so many different types of messages. But if terms like “text” and “iMessage” sound to you like distinctions without differences, you might want to start with the glossary below. If you are already intimately familiar with the problem and you’re just here for a solution, skip ahead to the “Apple Messages” section and go from there. What follows are all the ways I know of to text from both your desktop and your phone, along with the pros and cons of each approach.
AIRDROID HANGOUTS ANDROID
A few of you might even be Android users who cling to the false hope of Google Voice, or who have sworn lifelong allegiance to Nexus devices for the privilege of testing Project Fi. Or you’ve allowed yourself to be subjugated by a more closed and proprietary messaging platform like Facebook Messenger. If you bask in the privilege of texting from both your desktop and your phone interchangeably, chances are you are an iOS and Mac user who has discovered the brilliance of Apple’s Continuity. But for others, the loathsome cycle is seemingly unbreakable.
Then: lock phone, set down, complete approximately twenty additional seconds of work, and repeat.įor some of us desktop texters, such onerous workflows are a thing of the past - anecdotes to be passed down to our children and grandchildren in futile attempts to make them appreciate the extravagance of modern life.
AIRDROID HANGOUTS FULL
Think about that for a second: instead of applying the veritable supercomputers in front of us to the task of transmitting a few bits-worth of emoji - machines, incidentally, with obscene connectivity, full keyboards, mice/trackpads, and excellent spell checking - we’ve opted instead to pick up a phone, biometrically unlock it, open a messaging app, and risk autocorrect humiliation while laboriously tapping out a dispatch with less efficiency than a nineteenth-century telegraph operator. While sitting in front of our ultra-powerful, multi-thousand-dollar laptops, we’ve reached for our phones to send or read a text.
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