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Re: Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"

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Post by DandyDev »

lopkeny12ko wrote: post #103
happyopossum wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you’re not on Apple you and the recipient have to happen to have agree on and install same one of 37 different ways to do this. It’s not seamless.

That's a feature, not a bug. Why should I have to be locked in to a proprietary file sharing mechanism that my device manufacturer unilaterally declares I must use?

To have 37 different implementations to achieve this, might be a feature. To have 37 different protocols surely is not.

There should preferably be one open protocol for proximity based wireless ad-hoc file sharing. This protocol can then be implemented by operating systems and/or userland implementations

Re: Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"

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Post by majoe »

lock-the-spock wrote: post #97
dash2 wrote: post #83

I find it so insane that in 2023 you still have to be on Apple to have the following experience: * I have a file on a device I own. * I wish to send it to another device. * I send it. On Windows, it is still regularly true that the easiest way to send X from one laptop to another one, FIVE FEET AWAY, is via Dropbox or Gmail. This was technically easy twenty years ago. It's a concrete proof that collective action prob…

I am on Manjaro linux and use KDEconnect, which is excellent in sending things between devices, including phone-laptop exchange.

+1 for KDEConnect, it's a great piece of software.

The other day I figured out my last problem with it: My phone was coupled with my laptop and desktop computer, but desktop and laptop were not coupled to each other. This lead to awkward behaviour, when all three devices were turned on. For one reason or another I never thought about changing that, but coupling desktop and laptop fixed all problems I had occasionally with kdeconnect.

Re: Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"

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Post by dash2 »

jchw wrote: post #105
dash2 wrote: post #83

I find it so insane that in 2023 you still have to be on Apple to have the following experience: * I have a file on a device I own. * I wish to send it to another device. * I send it. On Windows, it is still regularly true that the easiest way to send X from one laptop to another one, FIVE FEET AWAY, is via Dropbox or Gmail. This was technically easy twenty years ago. It's a concrete proof that collective action prob…

I dunno, I use Bluetooth to send files regularly, and it seems alright. The only reason I do this is because it doesn't really require anything particularly special, though it's not particularly fast. Other than that, there's so many ways to send files that it's hard to pick one as an obvious "best" way to go. However, for something that is reasonably versatile and noob friendly, I pick Wormhole.app. Anything with a…

So your best answer needs an app and a visit to a website...? I rest my case!

Re: Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"

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Post by Zambyte »

dash2 wrote: post #83

I find it so insane that in 2023 you still have to be on Apple to have the following experience: * I have a file on a device I own. * I wish to send it to another device. * I send it. On Windows, it is still regularly true that the easiest way to send X from one laptop to another one, FIVE FEET AWAY, is via Dropbox or Gmail. This was technically easy twenty years ago. It's a concrete proof that collective action prob…

> This was technically easy twenty years ago.

FTP was created 52 years ago. SFTP[0] Has been around for nearly 30. The latter is usually how I transfer files between two machines that I can connect to each other.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_File_Transfer_Protocol

Re: Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"

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Post by dash2 »

lopkeny12ko wrote: post #103
happyopossum wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you’re not on Apple you and the recipient have to happen to have agree on and install same one of 37 different ways to do this. It’s not seamless.

That's a feature, not a bug. Why should I have to be locked in to a proprietary file sharing mechanism that my device manufacturer unilaterally declares I must use?

I turn up at a university to make a presentation. I want to send my powerpoint to the room computer. Which of the 37 apps will it have pre-installed?

Re: Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"

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Post by dash2 »

NilMostChill wrote: post #110
dash2 wrote: post #83

I find it so insane that in 2023 you still have to be on Apple to have the following experience: * I have a file on a device I own. * I wish to send it to another device. * I send it. On Windows, it is still regularly true that the easiest way to send X from one laptop to another one, FIVE FEET AWAY, is via Dropbox or Gmail. This was technically easy twenty years ago. It's a concrete proof that collective action prob…

You wish to send it to another apple device.

Yeah! I'm not praising Apple here! Maybe they refuse to let non-Apple devices interoperate, and it's their fault. I'm just saying that the rest of the world absolutely has not got it together.

Re: Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"

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Post by dash2 »

Zambyte wrote: post #116
dash2 wrote: post #83

I find it so insane that in 2023 you still have to be on Apple to have the following experience: * I have a file on a device I own. * I wish to send it to another device. * I send it. On Windows, it is still regularly true that the easiest way to send X from one laptop to another one, FIVE FEET AWAY, is via Dropbox or Gmail. This was technically easy twenty years ago. It's a concrete proof that collective action prob…

> This was technically easy twenty years ago. FTP was created 52 years ago. SFTP[0] Has been around for nearly 30. The latter is usually how I transfer files between two machines that I can connect to each other. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_File_Transfer_Protocol

How is that gonna work for my non-tech friend's phone and my other non-tech friend's laptop?

Re: Show HN: I made an app people call "Airdrop for Android"

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Post by ivanjermakov »

> Sending files via a messaging apps can be a security risk, as you are sharing your files with the messaging app first and then to your other devices. You cannot tell what those companies can do with your data, such as keep a copy of them, modify or sell them.

Why would I trust Ubidrop more than I trust messengers?

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