Comment by shaky-carrousel

3 months ago

They were required to drop AWDL, yes. They had to reimplement AirDrop.

https://www.ditto.com/blog/cross-platform-p2p-wi-fi-how-the-...

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jeroenhd  3 months ago

They weren't specifically required to drop AWDL, they were just required to implement WiFi-Aware in such a manner that neither technology had an advantage.

In theory Apple could've maintained both, but that seems like a waste of development time to me.

I doubt they would've had to implement any specific protocol if they had just opened up AWDL, but I suppose they'd rather keep that closed to maintain the ability to guard their walled garden in non-EU devices.

  • cowsandmilk  3 months ago

    > In theory Apple could've maintained both, but that seems like a waste of development time to me.

    They need Airdrop to work with phones who haven’t upgraded, so doesn’t feel like a waste to me. And they already have working AWDL code, so it’s just maintenance, probably not a ton of work.

gumby271  3 months ago

So does Mac OS support Wifi Aware now? I didn't think so, which is confusing if Airdrop still works between iOS and Mac OS.