I use this app called LocalSend between my Mac, my phone, and my Windows. It's genuinely a godsend, and I hope whoever reads it tries it
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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First time I hear about Google tech being insecure or not private. Sure they siphon all the info THEMSELVES, but never have I heard about them implementing insecure protocols.
> but never have I heard about them implementing insecure protocols. That's because they don't. Google takes security seriously. There's a reason GrapheneOS is only supported on Pixel devices currently as well, because of certain hardware security features. Nothing you do with Google is private from Google but it's certainly designed to belong only to Google, your data is one of their most important assets. Of course…
It is more precise to say, that they sell the idea, that they know better due to the fact that they have the data about you.
Re: Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
#403Do we know yet whether this will require Google Play Services and the like on Android? Or, worse, SafetyNet? I dream of using this on GrapheneOS without any Google stuff.
I'd be surprised if it did, there's no technical reason to require those. Also, SafetyNet is deprecated in favor of Play Integrity, so you're not likely to see the former in any new apps/services.
> I'd be surprised if it did, there's no technical reason to require those.
That has never stopped Google from requiring Play Services.
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#404Earlier quoted context omitted.
> we do know for sure that there's no macOS in the sdk because they weren't forced to by regulation. Unless you have insider knowledge, we don't know anything for sure here. Apple isn't a person. Apple doesn't have a single, consistent opinion when it comes to openness and EU regulation. (And even a person can change their mind.) All we know is that some teams at apple responded in the past to some EU regulation with…
I largely agree with you but want to highlight a few points. > Apple doesn't have a single, consistent opinion when it comes to openness and EU regulation. But it does have a greedy leader who can and does override everyone else. https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/24/apple-exec-phil-schiller-t... > Apple is 165 000 people. That's a lot of people. A lot more people than comment regularly on HN How do you know the HN numbe…
It’s a few million page views on the front page and a small fraction commenting.
Re: Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
#405Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Could be special needs for the radios
Re: Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
#406Earlier quoted context omitted.
I remember reading somewhere Apple had/has to make AirDrop interoperable due to EU's DMA.
So is Airdrop now less secure or private? I don't trust any standard Google had their hands in.
Did you read the security analysis that was done on this implementation?
Re: Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
#407It'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
For the first 3, that's mostly because technology has stopped being a productivity tool and became an ad delivery vehicle with some vestigial (and deteriorating) productivity features.
Re: Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
#408Why 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.
Because functional clipboard sharing would make you more productive and so you'll generate less "engagement" and screen time. Neither of those companies benefits.
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#409Incredible! In an astounding feat, it has only taken a mere two decades to enable the world's largest tech companies to provide the most basic levels of interopability. At this breakneck speed of technological development, one can only imagine what wonderful boons await consumers in the next few decades.
Apple could have implemented this a long time ago but decided not to implement Bluetooth file sharing.
Re: Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
#410Possibly relevant comment from a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26893693 >AirDrop also shares your full name (seemingly the one associated with your Apple ID, not what you have set for yourself in your contacts), both by displaying it in the sharing interface on the involved devices and by attaching it as an extended attribute to uploaded files. >So if you AirDrop some files to your computer and…
"... then zip them up, anyone you send that zip to (a journalist, a public file-hosting site, w/e) will have your full legal name ..." A bit of a leap to assume that your Apple ID (or the name you give your iphone) is your full legal name ... or related to any name at all ... My apple ID is built specifically for just that phone and is jettisoned when I upgrade/change the phone. The apple ID is not related to my own…
As defensible as it may be, your behavior is very far from the norm. You may not consider this a aggressive privacy practice but demographically speaking, it absolutely is.