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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

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Post by jddecker »

hshdhdhj4444 wrote: post #40

Of course, AirDrop is absolutely awful. Is the Android equivalent any better?

One thing I like about Android Quick Send is that you can generate a QR code, that the other person scans, and it'll send the file to them. I use it so rarely, and most people I know are the same, so usually it's just turned off and I find a lot of other Android users are the same.

Re: Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10

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Post by tuetuopay »

Angostura wrote: post #41
creaturemachine wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ever since the iphone apple has been trying to make you believe files aren't a thing.

Because Apple realised that phone users are interested in photos, videos, contacts, documents, appointments etc. not files

Despite others thinking you’re crazy, I think you are right. I remember the start of the smartphone era where many of my relatives switched to iPhone because "you know where the pictures are going and where to find them". The worst offender was my dad that had a Samsung phone running windows phone 6 (with an actual start menu) where you had to dig through folders to find jpeg files.

Re: Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10

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Post by DANmode »

sussmannbaka wrote: post #93
stavros wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Saying "I'm not sure if Android has caught up" when Android is decades ahead of Apple in that regard is some kind of... something.

Certainly wasn’t ahead with the stock file manager that came with my last Android phone.

Your Samsung or whatever manufacturer bloated trash ≠ Android.

Re: Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10

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Post by DANmode »

BoredPositron wrote: post #121
stavros wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Saying "I'm not sure if Android has caught up" when Android is decades ahead of Apple in that regard is some kind of... something.

Still no smb/webdav/sftp somehow...

https://sites.google.com/site/ghostcommander1

Re: Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10

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Post by arghwhat »

evanjrowley wrote: post #8
mcoliver wrote: post #6

Why only the pixel 10? What piece of hardware is the pixel 9 (one year old) missing?

The answer to your 2nd question might be Google's custom silicon: https://blog.google/products/pixel/tensor-g5-pixel-10/ The answer to your first question may simply be they want to sell more Pixel 10 phones. The investment into custom silicon is more likely to pay off when new and exiting features are exclusive to the newer platform.

That hardware is completely unrelated to such a simple feature. Something like AirDrop will only use fairly trivial crypto, which most likely ciphers with full acceleration available but even without it would work fine with plenty of performance headroom.

Neither Apple nor Google is doing anything revolutionary with their silicon for such a standard compute task. It's really mostly minor tuning to get a more optimal part instead of an off-the-shelf chip catering to other uses too, with die area and power consumption "wasted" in your setup.

Re: Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10

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Post by hackernewds »

marcodiego wrote: post #83

If you're using android, you can easily share files over local network (or using your phone as hotspot) with this app: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.MarcosDiez.shareviahttp/ If you're not close, telegram fork allow easy sharing of files too.

but I have to download and app which is the same as downloading Google drive

Re: Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10

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Post by sussmannbaka »

DANmode wrote: post #133
sussmannbaka wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Certainly wasn’t ahead with the stock file manager that came with my last Android phone.

Your Samsung or whatever manufacturer bloated trash ≠ Android.

I used the AOSP app I think? I’d usually agree with you but in this case I really wanted some more bloat because that one was dire :)

Re: Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10

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Post by DANmode »

MiddleEndian wrote: post #105
marcodiego wrote: post #62

Around 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.

They wouldn’t.

This is intentional.

Re: Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10

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Post by raw_anon_1111 »

rescbr wrote: post #128
somanyphotons wrote: post #26

Am I right to assume that they simply implemented AirDrop without discussing with Apple?

I remember reading somewhere Apple had/has to make AirDrop interoperable due to EU's DMA.

Well since absolutely no one buys Pixeld to a first approximation and mostly in the US. Looking at different sites it’s from 3-6% marketshare.

I doubt this was done for the DMA.

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