2y ago

kamila 🌸🏳️‍⚧️: It seems like Google's renaming Nearby Share to... Quick Share, which is also the name for the Samsung's file sharing solution? uhhhhh

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What? People are already learning what Nearby Share is. Why change the fucking branding?
- The point exactly. Google does not do successful branding, it's against some internal mandate apparently.
  
  Makes a new messaging app every few years
  Complains when iMessage has a monopoly
  The complaints are valid, but Google had more than enough power to compete
- So they can add a messaging service and then kill it.
Meh, it was as confusing as Android Nearby Share being incompatible with Windows Nearby Share.
- Seriously what's that about?
  
  Two companies using a somewhat generic name for their own implementation of a system that is not interoperable.
Remember when you could just tap your phone on someone else's?
- Was called Bump. And then Apple introduces it this year as if it's some new thing.
  I have no idea why sharing files between devices has to be so complicated. Bring the devices close together, get NFC connected, use P2P wifi to send the files. This is not that difficult.
  
  It worked previously with Bluetooth. Then instead of Google changing it to work with nearby share instead, it just kills it for no reason.
- That never worked right for me. Every phone had its NFC chip at a different location on the back, so you always had to figure out where the hell you had to tap the phones.
  
  People know where their chip is now though because of contactless

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