{"id":12457,"date":"2016-11-08T10:50:33","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T10:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/after_the_election_getting_mac_and_pc_to_start_talking.html"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:31:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:31:11","slug":"after-the-election-getting-mac-and-pc-to-start-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/after-the-election-getting-mac-and-pc-to-start-talking.html","title":{"rendered":"After the Election: Getting Mac and PC to Start Talking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/bigstock-Photo-of-Macbook-pro-116458706.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2016\/11\/bigstock-Photo-of-Macbook-pro-116458706-thumb-500x345-15408.jpg\" alt=\"bigstock-Photo-of-Macbook-pro-116458706.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"345\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have a minor quibble with my communications systems. throughout the day &#8211; based on the numerous initiatives I am involved with, I need to monitor 6 email accounts, WhatsApp, iMessage\/SMS, Google Hangouts, Facebook Messenger, Skype, LinkedIn and Twitter. This is just off the top of my head by the way and its maddening.<\/p>\n<p>I also monitor a web chat account from time to time to ensure coverage. Sometimes i also message via Slack and BaseCamp among others.<\/p>\n<p>In short, I feel most of my life these days is switching between Windows and iOS and various messaging apps.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t we all just get along?<\/p>\n<p>As many of us head to the polls and cast our votes, we hope that:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>There will be just one winner tonight.<\/li>\n<li>Whoever wins will reach out to the other side and get a dialogue going.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>But tech it seems can be as bad as politics. Why don&#8217;t iMessages show up on PC screens yet? Sure, I know the answer but isn&#8217;t it about time Apple worries less about locking people into it&#8217;s ecosystems and more about customers? Ditto for all the others mentioned above.<\/p>\n<p>We need less friction in our communications &#8211; and our government.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope 2017 is a positive year from both perspectives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a minor quibble with my communications systems. throughout the day &#8211; based on the numerous initiatives I am involved with, I need to monitor 6 email accounts, WhatsApp, iMessage\/SMS, Google Hangouts, Facebook Messenger, Skype, LinkedIn and Twitter. This is just off the top of my head by the way and its maddening. I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,157,158,161,184,199,203,118,217,177,174,192,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18454,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12457\/revisions\/18454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}