And Pixel phones still not support Miracast because Google want to push their own proprietary tech.
Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
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Re: Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
#362Around 2008 I saw two girls, not too versed in technology, share a mp3 song over bluetooth. At the time I thought that if technology finally arrived at the point where "normal people" could be able to do things that required lots of technical knowledge just a few years ago then we were very close to a future where technology could be a giant enabler of powers to everyone. I am really ashamed by how wrong I was and ho…
In high school (2003-2007) it was super easy for any of my friends and I (varying technical levels) to send arbitrarily large files to each other with AOL Instant Messenger's Direct Connect. Honestly not even sure how a non-technical person would do that nowadays.
In Europe, people use WhatsApp for this. Ridiculous to go through a chat app for this, but it works.
Re: Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
#363It's amazing how seemingly trivial things turn out to be really hard to be in practice. Like:
- sharing files between two phones
- printing a page on that printer over there
- getting the projector to display my screen (correctly, or at all)
- getting my wife not to click on a link in a random email
Re: Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
#364Earlier quoted context omitted.
Feel free to click on a PDF directly below that quote, I don't have to serve you everything on a silver platter. I promise you you will find what you're looking for right there.
So you posted a citation supposedly refuting my comment then when you are called out about it instead of admitting you misinterpreted your own citation, you say “look somewhere else”…
So instead of admitting you were wrong and that DMA did indeed strongarm Apple into doing this, you're doing what? Arguing I should've given you a different quote with that info instead of a primary source I've already linked to you?
Weird man, weird.
Re: Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
#365It's amazing how seemingly trivial things turn out to be really hard to be in practice. Like: - sharing files between two phones - printing a page on that printer over there - getting the projector to display my screen (correctly, or at all) - getting my wife not to click on a link in a random email
> getting my wife not to click on a link in a random email
Hot take: MUAs should simply not make links clickable/copyable on render, or even strip any URI away completely.
Re: Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
#366Now fix Direct Share on android, which is a highly broken feature and has been for years.
Re: Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
#367It's amazing how seemingly trivial things turn out to be really hard to be in practice. Like: - sharing files between two phones - printing a page on that printer over there - getting the projector to display my screen (correctly, or at all) - getting my wife not to click on a link in a random email
- sharing files between two phones when Apple's monopolistic tendencies are involved
I've been using Quick Share to send files between different makes of Android phone for ages. This is entirely on Apple.
Re: Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
#368Shoutout to https://localsend.org/ - it can even open a local webserver if needed.
It's slow as suffering in hell.
Really? It has been by far the fastest and simplest option I've found and use across all my devices these days. Not that I looked very deep though, like pairdrop and such.
So what's better than this?
Re: Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
#369This is based on Wi-Fi Aware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Alliance#Wi-Fi_Aware Some background: https://www.ditto.com/blog/cross-platform-p2p-wi-fi-how-the-... On the Apple side, this was prompted by the EU Digital Markets Act: https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/questions-and-answe...
It's hilarious that such a simple thing has taken this long for the world to build, and it's only because Apple was forced to allow it.
Oh, I fully expect Apple to have a hissy fit about this.
Re: Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
#370Why is it still so dodgy to share my clipboard between my cheap brand (i.e. non-Pixel) 4-year old Android phone and my Windows 11 PC? It's a failure on both Google's and Microsoft's part.