Why doesn’t my smartphone integrate with my tablet?

I don’t understand how we have these great products in the market that synchronize and do everything ‘magically’ in the cloud, yet they don’t even talk to each other properly yet. I still can’t read my Twitter notifications on the internet and then not have to read them a second time on my phone and I still can’t read and reply to text messages from my computer, nor can I receive calls using it.

For a long time, I’ve been wishing my phone and my PC could talk to each other a bit better, but it still hasn’t really happened. When Windows 8 was announced, that hope was renewed in a slightly different way. Leaks talked about support for missed calls and SMS support. This got me imagining a world where I could use my phone and tablet interchangeably, never having to double up.

A tablet seems like a natural extension for my phone. When I’ve got it with me, and I’m actively using it, it makes much more sense to use it to interact with my phone, so why can’t I? Incoming calls should pop up on my tablet, as should incoming text messages, Facebook Messages and the rest. I should never have to pull out your phone if the tablet screen is powered on and active. Let me respond to events as they happen on the tablet and clear them on my mobile so I don’t have to see them again. I am still surprised Apple isn’t doing this yet.

Obviously, that integration never came to fruition in Windows 8, but it still makes me wonder why no one is doing it. There is obviously demand out there for such a service, so why hasn’t anyone baked it right in yet? For me, this is the holy grail of integration in mobile.