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Yes, this is killing me. I have a colleague that told me "on iPhones I can super easily share files to someone else", and I'm like "20 years ago sharing files a
by phh 3y ago
Yes, this is killing me. I have a colleague that told me "on iPhones I can super easily share files to someone else", and I'm like "20 years ago sharing files across devices was a non-issue, because we had STANDARDS (ok maybe 17-18 years ago rather). Sharing files wasn't considered a feature worth mentioning because every phone supported this out of the box (well not exactly, so the feature was having Bluetooth). Tech monopolies prefer to ignore standards (looking at who implements which parts of Matter is pretty hilarious in that regard), and killed a whole range of obvious things in the process.
- stcg 3y agoIs bluetooth not usable anymore?
- phh 3y agoThe average file's size largely increased, bluetooth speed didn't (maybe *=2 with EDR)
- calamari4065 3y agoBluetooth caps out at a few tens of KByte/s. Not very nice when you're trying to transfer an image several MB in size.
- pnutjam 3y agoKDE connect is my goto for sharing between phone and computer.
- rsa4046 3y ago> KDE connect is my goto for sharing between phone and computer. Ditto. KDE connect is flawless, one of the best features.
- ArnoVW 3y agoAs much as I hate Apple for their repetitive NIH syndrome, Bluetooth has never worked flawlessly, and increasing filesizes made it increasingly maladapted.
- phh 3y agoThe point was that before FAANGs, people were talking together and created interoperable standards. In 2006, Bluetooth for file transfer between phones was pretty nice. Standardizing file transfer in 2010 would have given us file transfer over WiFi P2P, and people would actually use it, and it wouldn't be shipping broken on most devices.