This is basically Air Drop with extra features and an open API .
As @pat2man mentions, It would've been great if Apple and Google made this an open standard instead of having their own proprietary solutions.
As @pat2man mentions, It would've been great if Apple and Google made this an open standard instead of having their own proprietary solutions.
The new Apple era has strayed considerably from "it just works," except for AirDrop, which has been nothing but a pleasure to work with.
And I assume you are all using Mac?
Because In Cooperate World it is pretty much Windows Only.
The last two companies I worked for — a creative agency with ~50 people, and a larger more anonymous company with ~2,000 employees in 10 states — both were 100% Mac. The first one, because that's how creative agencies have always been. The second for security. The IT dept's policy was no Microsoft hardware or software allowed other than Office: Mac.
As for the workflow, it's like this:
- See file on desktop. - Right-click and select "Airdrop" - Choose destination computer - Notification appears on target computer stating that someone wants to send a file - Destination user clicks "Accept" - File transmits super-duper fast in the background and lands in the destination computer's download folder
Or if you're sending a file to yourself (both devices have the same iCloud/.mac/.me ID) skip everything after the third step.