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ungreased0675
Interesting technology, but what is the intended use?
ChrisRR
People who want 2 phones but one number. Seems self explanatory to me
jerlam
Isn't this strange feature similar to how cellular Apple Watches are implemented?
FireBeyond
No, they have their own number and basically it's a little PBX, simultaneous ring, and outbound CID rewriting.

This is about letting the same number exist twice in the network.

dddw
I know apple primarily serves to better it's own ecosystem. But if they would have let this handoff feature on android devices, I would have finally considered an iphone for the first time next to my android devicr
joshstrange
I’m not on a supported carrier and I don’t think I’d pay extra for this feature but I would be nice to take a dev phone and temporarily give it my cell plan for testing purposes.

That said, it would require I be signed into my Apple ID on the dev phone as well. Which isn’t out of the question, but normally I like to use a different account for isolation.