<story><title>iPhone X</title><url>https://www.apple.com/iPhone-x</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>addicted</author><text>Steve Jobs talked about this when he returned to Apple. He basically discussed how he would work at his home Mac and then come to the office and login and suddenly with the internet and networking the work Mac would be exactly the same.&lt;p&gt;I think the ideal should basically be that. You can pick up a phone, any phone (limited to iPhones for Aplle), login to your iCloud account and suddenly it&amp;#x27;s your phone, indistinguishable from the other phone thst was yours, outside maybe unavailable hardware features.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s one of the great things about web apps. I can log into Gmail anywhere and it&amp;#x27;s the same thing. I haven&amp;#x27;t used it, but I believe this is the promise ChromeOS delivers.</text></item><item><author>zaroth</author><text>They make is so easy to login to the phone -- I&amp;#x27;m still waiting for the ability to add multiple users. When I hand my phone to my daughter she should see her apps, my son, his. And when I hand my phone to my wife, she should unlock it and see.... &lt;i&gt;her phone&lt;/i&gt;. If 256GB local storage and 11ac WiFi isn&amp;#x27;t enough storage and bandwidth to make this easy, I would be OK if it only kept the last GB of the camera roll.&lt;p&gt;Of course this sync should happen directly between our devices when they are on the same network. No need to go through the cloud.&lt;p&gt;By default if her phone rings it should only alert on her primary device. Unless she authenticates to my device at which point everything is there waiting. If her phone was ringing and she picks up my device and authenticates it should answer the call.&lt;p&gt;Ideally this is all smooth enough that we have matching devices and don&amp;#x27;t care which one either of us walks out of the house with.&lt;p&gt;The end game is that when networks are fast enough, the cloud mature enough, and homomorphic encryption performant, we get to the point where the phone basically lives in the cloud and anyone can pick up any iDevice, authenticate, and be looking at effectively their own device.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattowen_uk</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt; how he would work at his home Mac and then come to the office and login and suddenly with the internet and networking the work Mac would be exactly the same&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think this is the right end game. Now that almost every adult in the 1st world has a mobile phone in their pocket that is more than capable of being a desktop PC, the solution we should be heading for is universal docking stations (preferably) wireless. So that wherever you are, there&amp;#x27;s a large screen+keyboard+mouse (or the phone screen can be a trackpad) and your phone just connects to those, be it at work, or home, or in a hotel.&lt;p&gt;Your main machine is in your pocket; a lot of non-techie people don&amp;#x27;t even have any other personal computing device (laptop&amp;#x2F;desktop etc.).&lt;p&gt;Personally tho, I like having a division between my work machine(s), and my home machine(s).</text></comment>
<story><title>iPhone X</title><url>https://www.apple.com/iPhone-x</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>addicted</author><text>Steve Jobs talked about this when he returned to Apple. He basically discussed how he would work at his home Mac and then come to the office and login and suddenly with the internet and networking the work Mac would be exactly the same.&lt;p&gt;I think the ideal should basically be that. You can pick up a phone, any phone (limited to iPhones for Aplle), login to your iCloud account and suddenly it&amp;#x27;s your phone, indistinguishable from the other phone thst was yours, outside maybe unavailable hardware features.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s one of the great things about web apps. I can log into Gmail anywhere and it&amp;#x27;s the same thing. I haven&amp;#x27;t used it, but I believe this is the promise ChromeOS delivers.</text></item><item><author>zaroth</author><text>They make is so easy to login to the phone -- I&amp;#x27;m still waiting for the ability to add multiple users. When I hand my phone to my daughter she should see her apps, my son, his. And when I hand my phone to my wife, she should unlock it and see.... &lt;i&gt;her phone&lt;/i&gt;. If 256GB local storage and 11ac WiFi isn&amp;#x27;t enough storage and bandwidth to make this easy, I would be OK if it only kept the last GB of the camera roll.&lt;p&gt;Of course this sync should happen directly between our devices when they are on the same network. No need to go through the cloud.&lt;p&gt;By default if her phone rings it should only alert on her primary device. Unless she authenticates to my device at which point everything is there waiting. If her phone was ringing and she picks up my device and authenticates it should answer the call.&lt;p&gt;Ideally this is all smooth enough that we have matching devices and don&amp;#x27;t care which one either of us walks out of the house with.&lt;p&gt;The end game is that when networks are fast enough, the cloud mature enough, and homomorphic encryption performant, we get to the point where the phone basically lives in the cloud and anyone can pick up any iDevice, authenticate, and be looking at effectively their own device.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snyp</author><text>This is exactly what the hand off feature in iOS is about, granted it does not work across all apps but they have done some great improvements with iOS 11 and hopefully will keep improving upon it in the future</text></comment>