![]() ![]() I don't want to engineer my life in apps, I want to experience it. It's not a good end user experience and I think the juggling between apps in multitasktin is overhyped and ruining what was a more coherent experience and philosophy before with windows phone and windows 8.x. ![]() In windows phone 8 a lot of things are together in one hub of the people hub app. It not most apps like the people app feel widely disconneted to email and seem to do something similar at first glance with skype. Microsoft told of a vision of a more modular connectedness for windows 10, but I'm not really experiencing that with windows 10. I understand it is an engeneering thing why the app is split up, but sometimes I can't help but think that defragmenting app features is getting out of hand. In windows 8 everything was under one roof in one app. The only thing I don't like is that there are two seperate apps voor video conversations and messaging/calling. I'm not that familiar with Hangouts - I did some research on it and decided it didn't fit my use case. She can however use iMessages to communicate with others that has iPhone. Of the 3, only Skype can do this and it works very well. She can send SMS messages from her Skype but can't receive SMS messages to her Skype number but can setup her Skype number to automatically send SMS replies via her carrier to her phone number assigned by carrier (unfortunately, this does no good for us as she suspended her carrier services while deployed). By using the Skype number, I can call her and she can call me even though I use Windows Mobile and she uses iPhone. A good friend of mine is stationed overseas. lack functionality that Skype has - ability to call/receive calls from any landline/cellphone anywhere in the world (assuming WiFi) using Skype number. ![]() The short comings of iMessage and Hangouts is 1.) it's not on all platforms and 2. ![]()
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