Europe @feddit.org CAVOK @lemmy.world 7 hr. ago

The EU wants Apple to open AirDrop and AirPlay to Android and other platforms

9to5google.com The EU wants Apple to open AirDrop and AirPlay to Android and other platforms

A new mandate from the EU may force Apple to open AirDrop and AirPlay, among other features, to Android and other platforms.

Android @lemdro.id henfredemars @infosec.pub 21 hr. ago

9to5google.com /2024/12/20/eu-apple-airdrop-airplay-android-more/

Apple @lemmy.zip Sunshine (she/her) @lemmy.ca 2 days ago

The EU wants Apple to open AirDrop and AirPlay to Android and other platforms

9to5google.com /2024/12/20/eu-apple-airdrop-airplay-android-more/

24 comments

Android Beam was so much cooler and easier to use than Quick Share
To have these features be universal across all device types would be so amazing. iPhone, android, Mac, and Windows should all have the ability to transfer files and stream media. It should be simple
- You know bluetooth has been able to do just that since like 2005
  
  Maybe, but it’s slow and much harder to use than how AirDrop works
- My girlfriend has an iPhone, and the storage is full. We've been trying to get all her pictures transferred off to delete some of the older ones off the phone and holy fuck is it a pain in the ass. Move them to her MacBook? Pain in the ass because of how they setup their Photos app. Move to a flashdrive via a dongle? Pain in the ass because it downloads from who knows where and fills the storage back up before I can start the transfer. Connect to my Windows PC? Lmao yeah right.
  
  So far I've just gotten Immich to backup all her pics to my server but due to the amount on her phone it takes forever then bugs out and stops transferring.
  
  iOS can eat my entire ass
  
  iOS can eat my entire ass
  
  Let's rename it to iOAss
  
  Syncthing-Fork on a PC/Mac, Möbius Sync on the iOS device (it's $5). Worth the five bucks. I keep multiple phones, hundreds of gigs syncing with Syncthing. It just works.
- I tried to share a contact yesterday from Android to Apple. Quick share doesn't work. QR code doesn't work.
  
  I had to get their phone number and send it over SMS in text. Ridiculous.
  
  You can share a contact from your contacts app to any service - it'll attach a vcard.
  
  Works both ways. Yea, it's harder than it should be, when Palm had this capability via infrared in 1996.
The new Matter casting protocol should in theory reduce some of this proprietary-ness of Google’s Chromecast and Apple’s AirPlay
Local Send and Quick Share is the answer
- Which quick share app?
  
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.taymay.file.transfer
  
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sks.wifi.booster.wifi.analyzer.strength
  
  It's a part of Android and comes pre-installed if you are on a phone running the latest Android Version
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quick_Share
  
  I am not sure if it is a part of AOSP so custom Roms, or phone brands without Google apps support like Huawei, may not include it
- Yay for local send! Anyone knows if there's a way to use it while I have VPN on on one the devices ? I usually have to turn it off while sending things..
  
  use split tunneling to exempt the app from using VPN connection.
- Nope they only work on the same wifi. They dont use bluetooth to find a device and then send files directly to eachother over wifi. They connect over a wifi router
  
  Quickshare absolutely does find other devices over Bluetooth and then send the files over a direct wifi connection between the 2 phones. I've used it that way tons of times
Apple should sell chips for that, :)

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