I miss Bluetooth for discovery. And Bluetooth for transmission of small files. * Eliminates the need to be in one network of any kind. * Allows nearby

I miss Bluetooth for discovery. And Bluetooth for transmission of small files. * Eliminates the need to be in one network of any kind. * Allows nearby detection. * Nowadays good for laptop <-> smartphone * Possiblilty to create AP with WiFi for big transfers Bluetooth discovery is the strength of AirDrop. I’m not sure but I think Apple creates a temporary WiFi and the other party is connecting to it briefly for big transfers? The application Teleport [1] uses Zeroconf for discovery. It misses cross-platform support. Probably it is better use Multicast directly, setup of Avahi is complicated (conflicts) and requires a Daemon. PS: People often forget that Bluetooth has already the built-in capability to transfer files (e.g. vCard). I only remember GNOME to present it and then also not in Nautilus. Same as WebDAV which works much better than SMB for me. Again, most people just don’t know that there is WebDAV built-in.