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New iphone owner - how do you integrate with the Surface Pro 3
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It is interesting to me to see so many people jumping on iPhone, as I'm considering going the other way. I have a work-provided iPhone 5 and while I do get calendar and email just fine, that's about all I use the phone for (well, iMessages and SMS texting, too). The camera on the iPhone is horrid, compared to a friend's Nokia (920 I think, but I don't know) and despite having a whole slew of apps and games installed, I almost never use/play them. Fascinating.
All of the Microsoft office apps are available for iPhone. I use the onedrive app to back up by iPhone camera roll. MS gives you 15Gb for that. Other than that and ITunes, there is not much integration like on the Mac. Things like handoff, continuity, etc will only work on the Mac with Yosemite.
Get a Windows Phone then. You will regret it. MS is famous for ditching the Windows Phone platform along with anything else that doesn't sell well like Zune, MS Play, etc.
MS Live stuff already syncs with iPhone. Contacts, Calendars, etc. Just add as Outlook account.
Um yea.
http://slant.investorplace.com/2013/08/blackberry-stock-bbry-apple-aap/
Blackberry is DEAD - Stick a fork in it. Their market share is now 0%.
http://gizmodo.com/were-not-dead-yet-says-blackberry-and-launches-a-fact-1597726841
daniielrp
Active Member
I'll just reiterate what is already said, but from someone wh0 has used an iPhone for almost 2.5years, and had 3 different surfaces (RT, SP2, SP3).
1. OneDrive app will do everything you need with photos.
2. OneNote can do this already.
3. Access point is already in built.
Just add it as an Outlook or Exchange account. It will do Mail, Contacts, Calendars and Notes flawlessly.
I use iTunes on a Mac, and it's perfect. I have not installed it on my SP3 due to resolution/DPI issues and general terrible-ness of the Windows port.
The only thing I EVER use it for anyway is music sync, but this can be via Xbox Music app on iOS now anyway if you subscribe to this.
Also a fun read - just shows you how much of a 'Windows' Ecosystem you can get from iOS, and they've added a lot more apps since then! Just search for Microsoft in the App store and you'll see the effort MS put in to iOS!
annabanana
Active Member
The first link is over a year old and the gizmodo article is 3 months old. BlackBerry may not have market share in the US, but it's still very popular in other parts of the world. It is not dead, no matter what you and US tech bloggers say, and most of them are very much biased toward Apple.
I've actually got two one-drive accounts, one tied to my original MS account, and one tied to my business and my office 365 SBP subscription .
I don't shoot many pics w the iPhone.
Len
OneDrive for business is not tied to your Microsoft Account, it is tied to your work account associated with the Office365 Subscription. Also OneDrive for Business is what was once Groove (Ray Ozzie's old Company before it was bought by MS). OneDrive for Consumer is built on top of Azure Storage Services.
Frank, I don't know if anyone responded to you or not on this, but I too despise iTunes, especially in Windows. I don't have it installed on any of my Windows machines (although I do have Macs available to me should I need to use it). In any case, there are very few things that you will absolutely need iTunes for, and if you need music syncing for your phone/device, there are tons of media managers that run on Windows and work with iOS.
Pepper
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Were you aware of "Preview for Developers"? There's nothing stopping you upgrading that phone.
