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Could you make the process any more complicated? I hear there's this thing called Bluetooth and all you have to do is activate it and zap the phone directly wit
by omouse 17y ago
Could you make the process any more complicated? I hear there's this thing called Bluetooth and all you have to do is activate it and zap the phone directly with it. Why communicate with the "cloud" at all?
- amichail 17y agoI think it would be interesting to use Bluetooth to automatically exchange business cards with nearby people (e.g., at a conference) to determine whom you might want to talk to.
- jmintz 17y agoBluetooth is surprisingly difficult to get working between different phones. When phones actually do recognize each other it takes a long time to pair. Once pairing is completed (even between iPhones this takes ~45 when it works) transfers speeds are fast. Communicating with our server in the cloud is a compromise, but it eliminates the cross-platform compatability and pairing problems of Bluetooth.
- omouse 17y agoAs someone else noted, you're still waiting around for ~25 seconds with Bump. That's an incremental improvement and users may be slightly more forgiving of the time. Have you looked into Bonjour?