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It isn't? Wow, Apple. Also, who uses Windows phones?

• the_duke 10y ago
  Apple always bakes their own bread... And plenty of people have to use their company Windows phone.
  • kalleboo 10y ago
    Until iOS came around they had absolutely excellent Bluetooth support in OS X, including file sharing and even stuff like contact sync with dumbphones which worked really well.
• pjmlp 10y ago
  The people on countries that paying for an iPhone would cost too much versus their life costs and don't want to use Android.
  • jonknee 10y ago
    Windows Phone doesn't have significant traction anywhere in the world.
    • pjmlp 10y ago
      Many southern and east European and South America countries used to have around 10%, before the last layoffs round and the broken promise to upgrade 8.1 devices to WP 10. Can gladly provide you the link to consulting companies that sell such reports.
      • jonknee 10y ago
        "Used to have 10% before a bunch of bad stuff" is exactly what I meant, Windows Phone has no significant adoption anywhere in the world.
        • pjmlp 10y ago
          People don't throw away their phones on the garbage can, just because some people on HN think they should.
• singularity2001 10y ago
  just confirmed: tried to send an image from android to mac. Complete failure (on Apples side?) didn't even try to use Bluetooth for ages, because every time it results in nightmares. ( and yes: Bluetooth was activated and connected )
• joosters 10y ago
  Apple can use bluetooth for file sharing. It's part of their 'Airdrop' feature, which uses bluetooth + wifi to move files around. (I think bt is only used to negotiate temporary wifi settings, and then the actual file exchange takes place over wifi.) But once again, the real problem here is that Airdrop is apple-specific. We still have the same fundamental problem that despite having many direct file sharing choices, there is no common way across all the OS/hardware platforms.