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I'm not an apple user, but isn't this essentially solved by airdrop? Or do people not actually use that?
by notatoad 8y ago
I'm not an apple user, but isn't this essentially solved by airdrop? Or do people not actually use that?
- uptown 8y agoI use it regularly.
- woogiewonka 8y agoMe too.
- ndnxhs 8y agoAirdrop is pretty much useless because its proprietary and only works on apple devices. A useful tool for photo sharing has to work for almost everyone.
- WoodenChair 8y agoSomething is not "useless" because it is only "useful" to a portion of the population. Floppy disks were a useful tool for file sharing in the 1990s, but not amongst people who didn't own computers.
- grey-area 8y agoI think you're missing an 'I' or 'for me' in there somewhere. Lots of people find airdrop useful.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoLet's try to rescue this statement. Airdrop is useful in general, but there are still large pockets of people for whom it's useless. Large, like don't know, Europe. Airdrop is the kind of tool that follows Metcalfe's law (with "network" being "people who can Airdrop to each other"). In places where Android is the dominant market player, you'll have little luck trying to use Airdrop to exchange data with other people. This is not dissing Airdrop, just calling out that there's a huge market segment that still has this problem.
- CamTin 8y agoWhy can't Europeans use Airdrop?
- notatoad 8y agothere's plenty of scenarios where the apple users in a room comprise "almost everyone".
- jakobegger 8y agoAirdrop is incredibly unreliable. In my experience, you have a 50% chance that the other device will appear. If it works today, there's no guarantee it'll work tomorrow. And that's with all devices on the same Wifi network, in the same room. I don't know why it works so poorly.