Android 13 needs to steal a few of Apple's features to show off at Google IO 2023

As we're on the eve of Google IO 2023, Android 13 has seen a public beta, and it contains hints in the direction of Google's personal tackle Handoff, a function that first appeared on Apple gadgets.

Handoff permits you to keep it up utilizing the identical app as you turn between totally different Apple gadgets. This will be Safari, a music observe, or a podcast, so long as you are signed in with the identical Apple ID account. But Continuity helps you to keep it up in utilizing a function on a totally different Apple machine, akin to taking a picture and seeing it in your Mac.

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I've been an Apple consumer ever since I purchased a third-generation iPod again in 2004. I switched my PC for one of the primary Intel iMac fashions, and I imported the primary iPhone in 2007.

Throughout this, I've all the time appreciated the features the place I might handle my content material throughout the gadgets, with out having to do the old school technique of emailing it to myself.

With Continuity and Hand Off, these features permit me to switch my workflow from my iPhone 13 Pro, to my MacGuide Pro 14-inch with no problem.

But there are customers who solely personal Google gadgets - whether or not that is proudly owning each a Pixelbook and a Pixel 6, or a Google Nest and a Fitbit. But managing and sending your information and content material between these gadgets presently is not simple as Apple's technique, and in 2023 that is not good.

Android 13 seems set to embody a function that alleviates some of this, tentatively known as ‘TTT’ or Tap to Transfer.

From an early construct in January, you might ship the media you’re both watching or listening to on an Android 13 machine, to a machine that may very well be close by.

But it ought to be rather more. Being in a position to switch your music out of your Pixel 6 to a Chrome web browser ought to be less complicated, alongside having the ability to keep it up listening to a observe in Google Play Music that is in your OnePlus 10 Pro, onto a Pixelbook.

It's time for Google to understand that ease of use for gadgets issues. While its current efforts with Material You, the redesigned themes for Android have been acquired warmly, there's nonetheless more work to do.

As more merchandise seem (and more are seemingly on the best way, with one rumored to be the Pixel Watch) seeing more cohesion throughout gadgets might be more necessary than ever. Being given more management over your content material on the gadgets you personal might be interesting to many, and it seems as if Android 13 is the primary signal of Google being conscious of this.

It's now a matter of whether or not the identical function shouldn't be solely going to seem on the remainder of its product line, however whether or not the function is best than what Apple's take has been for the final few years.