Nearby Connections 2.0: offline high bandwidth peer to peer device communication
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Nearby Connections 2.0: offline high bandwidth peer to peer device communication
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Re: Nearby Connections 2.0: offline high bandwidth peer to peer device communication
#2This is one of those features that really needs cross platform support. If Apple and Google could just work together and let MultipeerConnectivity and Nearby Connections work together maybe developers would actually develop interesting applications for peer to peer.
Re: Nearby Connections 2.0: offline high bandwidth peer to peer device communication
#3This is basically Air Drop with extra features and an open API .
As @pat2man mentions, It would've been great if Apple and Google made this an open standard instead of having their own proprietary solutions.
Re: Nearby Connections 2.0: offline high bandwidth peer to peer device communication
#4Another Google specific API. Please use open standard based communication framework [0] for your "connected" things.
Re: Nearby Connections 2.0: offline high bandwidth peer to peer device communication
#5This is one of those features that really needs cross platform support. If Apple and Google could just work together and let MultipeerConnectivity and Nearby Connections work together maybe developers would actually develop interesting applications for peer to peer.
It's presumably built around WiFi Aware, which is cross platform, but the WiFi "Alliance" (owners) won't tell you what it is or how it works or how you can make use of it.
So this is what we get.
100% agreed though. IMO is poison and a major regression from where things stood- barely working wifi p2p- since it doesn't make any interoperability affordances/offerings.
Re: Nearby Connections 2.0: offline high bandwidth peer to peer device communication
#61. cross platform support and interactivity - at protocol level.
2. innovators build platforms and apps.
3. success and liberty for all!
Seriously though, totally agree with a few commenters (pat2man, mataug), open standards will win the day; any day...including future days.
Re: Nearby Connections 2.0: offline high bandwidth peer to peer device communication
#7No thank you. I hope there's a simple way to disable this.
Re: Nearby Connections 2.0: offline high bandwidth peer to peer device communication
#8No thank you. I hope there's a simple way to disable this.
Can't wait for the peer to peer mobile malware!
Re: Nearby Connections 2.0: offline high bandwidth peer to peer device communication
#9No thank you. I hope there's a simple way to disable this.
Can't wait for the peer to peer mobile malware!
No need to wait, the recently announced Broadcom wifi vuln discussed here[1] can be used to spread to nearby devices (see the section titled "The First Wifi Worm" near the end).
Re: Nearby Connections 2.0: offline high bandwidth peer to peer device communication
#10This is one of those features that really needs cross platform support. If Apple and Google could just work together and let MultipeerConnectivity and Nearby Connections work together maybe developers would actually develop interesting applications for peer to peer.
Seconded. What could be their interest in not making this technology interoperable? I'd there are already some killer applications for only one platform it could be user lock in. Otherwise it's to keep developers from using it, which is strange.