> As someone that has never embraced the mobile craze, I sorely missed the ability of texting (or “iMessaging”) from my PC, and came to absolutely despise having to drag my phone out of my pocket and text from its cramped display, constantly fighting autoincorrect and embarrassing myself with typos and misspellings.
An alternative solution is to use a Bluetooth keyboard, possibly with multi-device support and device switching shortcuts, attached to an iPhone or iPad sitting on a stand.
As someone who learned to properly type on a physical (PC) keyboard, it's mind blowing to me how so many people swipe so many letters on screens.
Ignorance is bliss I suppose.
First I had Blackberry Blend around 2014 (SMS and BBM messaging through PC), now there's Signal for Desktop and the Your Phone Microsoft thing.
The wheel keeps getting reinvented.
I wonder when peer2peer messaging will become popular again. It's how Skype started out and became big back in 2003. Offered way better call quality and privacy, because: no server and peer2peer.
I did that, actually! Ran into some problems with the ux and lots of issues switching between soft and hard keyboards. I don’t know if the situation has improved since.
An alternative solution is to use a Bluetooth keyboard, possibly with multi-device support and device switching shortcuts, attached to an iPhone or iPad sitting on a stand.