“One of the coolest software features Apple unveiled on stage during WWDC 2014 may not be available to all iOS and Mac users, German publication Apfeleimer speculates,” Chris Smith reports for BGR.
“‘Continuity’ / ‘Handoff’ or the ability of iOS 8 and Yosemite users to pick up actions started on one platform and continue them on the other – including calling and full SMS support for Macs running Yosemite – may only be available to iOS and OS X devices that have Bluetooth 4.0 LE support, which is apparently needed to establish a connection between devices,” Smith reports. “The oldest Macs that can support Handoff are the mid 2011 MacBook Air and the Mac mini in case Bluetooth 4.0 LE is required. Obviously, everything else launched since then would be able to let users pick up on their Macs things that were started on an iPhone or iPad.
Smith reports, “As for iOS devices compatible with iOS 8, only the iPad 2 won’t offer continuity features, as it also lacks Bluetooth 4.0 LE support.”
Read more in the full article here.
Related article:
Here’s the full list of OS X Yosemite-compatible Macs and iOS 8-compatible Apple devices – June 4, 2014
You can buy a tiny USB Bluetooth LE key and OSX then supports it as a native BLE interface.
bingo.
If you get the right one, OS-X will recognize it out of the box.
Could you use a USB BT 4.0 dongle to upgrade your older MacBook Pro. Mine is mid 2009
I hope so. I have a Mid-2010 MBP.
http://www.iogear.com/product/GBU521/
The latest OS update seems to be falling short of what anyone would consider as a “great new product” – but, Tim assures there are more like this in the pipeline. And the whooping and hollering will greet them all just as though there was really anything to whoop or holler about. Darkness.
Fixed it for you.
The latest OS update seems to be falling short of what anyone would consider as a “great new product” – but, Nadella assures there are more like this in the pipeline. And the whooping and hollering will greet them all just as though there was really anything to whoop or holler about. Darkness.
Fixed it again for you.
The latest MDN post by Jay Moronisonubabitch is definitely falling short of what anyone would consider as “informed or reasonable” – but, Jay assures there are more baseless agenda-driven opinions like this in the pipeline. And the raspberries and laughter will greet them all just as though there was really anything intelligent offered up. Darkness between the ears.
Samsung is copying this OS. If you think Apple’s new OS is crap, you will be using that crap only it will be more crappier.
Looks like it is shitty being you.
Sofa King spoiled. Do you really feel that Apple owes you an earth-shattering new product every year?
@ montex
“Apple owes you an earth-shattering new product every year?”
Why of course it does have to deliver this. Just like Microsoft does!
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Why would OS X calling and SMS support require a Bluetooth connection? Remember, Apple’s selling point for being able to answer calls on your Mac or iPad is “What if your iPhone is in another part of the house?” They specifically said that calling only required that the iPhone be on the same local network as the Mac or iPad. I can’t see why SMS wouldn’t work the same way.
——RM
Well.. Maybe time to upgrade old equipment !
Hey MDN and MDN readers,
Whatever “Apfeleimer.de” appears to be (“Applebucket”), it’s not a German publication. Something’s fishy. At least the writer clearly isn’t a native German, nobody writes like that. Just to let you know. You know, it feels like like they’ll praise Samsung next month, we know they pay for that.
My first thought to this article was “ok, so what?”
Do we, as software developers, have to concede features to satisfy the lowest denominator?
Like running an iOS 3 program on iOS 7. Let’s not utilize features… Or maybe we will write “compatibility libraries”?
My MacBook doesn’t have thunderbolt. So, I guess I should be upset that that technology was invented.
Time to get a new Mac