Comment by wackget
3 months ago
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.
It took the EU forcing Apple's hand. If it were up to Apple, you'd still need to buy an iPhone/iPod/iPad/iMac to get access to basic file sharing.
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.
Airdrop is a proprietary format and doesn’t work on my laptop, which runs FreeBSD.
Please stop excusing this anti social behaviour.
Tons of antitrust cases and people still believe this in 2025.
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... .
This makes no sense as an explanation. They changed the architecture not to infringe on the patents. So the patents are not stopping them from opening up now.
Indeed. We have flying cars, FSD, AI and borderline AGI, robots, yet file sharing is like breakthrough in technologia.
This is why we need more scrutiny against big tech. Interop and platform openess.
The astounding feat of reinventing Bluetooth...
Airdrop has nothing to do with Bluetooth
Hopefully the speed of innovation will increase as Apple is forced to be less shitty of a platform owner.
They're might have exhausted their centennial budget of cooperation on trivial things!
I feel like we have finally entered the 21st century! Next stop moon bases and flying cars!