Ask HN: Why is communication among physically nearby devices still impractical?

Post by RantyDave » Tue, Jun 02, 2015, 5:05 AM UTC

killerpopiller wrote: post #8

fragmede wrote: post #6

It's there, if you look. AirDrop between Apple devices, for example, seems to do just fine. DLNA orchestrates media between disparate (non-Apple) devices as another example. My desktop downloads a video, my NAS shares it, I press play on my Android phone, and the video is output on the TV. So my various devices can talk to each other, but it took Sony and Intel an untold amount of resources to achieve. For something…

AirDrop is broken with my devices: imac, iphone, mb air, nothing older than 2 years. might be the FW though, but after disabling the rules they still don't find each other allways.