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Incredible! 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.
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- 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.
I wish that would work when you don't have internet. Had to fall back to old school bluetooth, and like 1 MB/s to share a video with a friend.
Finally in 2025, a revolutionary advancement in technology.
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Apple could have implemented this a long time ago but decided not to implement Bluetooth file sharing.
AirDrop is faster and more secure and reliable than simple Bluetooth file sharing. There are a number of reasons they weren't going to do that.
Please stop excusing this anti social behaviour.
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KDE Connect handles that and a ton more very seamlessly imo. Not sure if the solution has to be first-party to qualify as "non-dodgy" but for a third-party solution it's pretty damned good
Throwing in my support for kde connect. It's just super convenient and it's FOSS + cross platform too. kde should honestly advertise it aggressively. There's nothing like it anywhere else.
That's why I never got around to using it. Hoping it's changed. If Syncthing can share across networks, why not something else?
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I wish that would work when you don't have internet. Had to fall back to old school bluetooth, and like 1 MB/s to share a video with a friend.
It does, and it works to windows machines too
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The fact that you are impressed that different products from the same brand are interoperable between them says volumes about Apple and Apple users.
Android didn't have a way to share files between them for the longest time. Initially there was Beam but it never worked. The first semi-reliable way to exchange files between two android phones, without using a third party utility, was Nearby Share dates from 2020. So yeah, it's a low bar, but one that only Apple bothered to clear from the get go apparently.
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DAE remember in 2010 when Steve Jobs said that Facetime would be an open industry standard?
FaceTime got caught up in patent issues that precluded both opening it up and resulted in architecture changes: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/report-after-pat... .
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Yeah, I get it. I don't want any of that, I just want a filesystem. I'll take care of cloud storage with SyncThing (or whatever) -- I'm the kind of guy that values being able to choose the parts. I don't buy "cold medicine", I buy ibuprofen, diphenhydramine, pseudoephedrine or whatever else I decide, and I'll dose each based on my symptoms. Because that's just better than some prepackaged thing. And I do the exact sa…
Yes I’m sure “you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 With iCloud, if I drop my phone in the ocean by mistake, I can walk into the Apple Store, buy another p…
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Yes I’m sure “you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 With iCloud, if I drop my phone in the ocean by mistake, I can walk into the Apple Store, buy another p…
I use SyncThing. It works well.
If you through your phone in the ocean and gestured on another one, would your new phone look just like your old one?
And it’s been discontinued for Android….
https://forum.syncthing.net/t/discontinuing-syncthing-androi...