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It doesn't have to be large files, file sharing sucks. Even copy/past across devices, even your own devices, is a pain. How many times did I email myself some l
by tbronchain 6y ago
It doesn't have to be large files, file sharing sucks. Even copy/past across devices, even your own devices, is a pain. How many times did I email myself some links to share them across devices. And I'm not even speaking about sharing pictures with people not very accustomed to technology (in other words, don't try to get them install a cloud storage app).
I gave that question a few tries but I feel part of the problem is the market being saturated by giants doing half the job. Another part of it is the lack of interoperability regarding file sharing between operating systems.
I mean - a native right click>send to>user - native notification to the user with a solution to direct p2p download from that person. No software needed, seemless integration. Why is that so hard?
I really wish the big boys would give that a try rather than giving us toy-like features and price bump.
- StavrosK 6y agoYou're gonna love magic-wormhole.
- tbronchain 6y agoIt's great, but we're very far from the os-agnostic seemless integrated files sharing. You see, we have protocols like HTTP and the web relies on it, everyone agrees this is how the web works and all OSes have one or several browser able to access it. Something similar works with emails. Yet, we don't have anything to share files between computers, imagine something like bittorrent directly integrated to all OSes, letting you right click > send to.
- nicolas314 6y agoHaving a generic "Send to" would only solve a part of it though. There is currently no standard way of connecting the two ends of the same cable to two computers and expect them to exchange files without heavy configuration on both sides. Wireless goes the same way.