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- sharing files between two phones when Apple's monopolistic tendencies are involved

I've been using Quick Share to send files between different makes of Android phone for ages. This is entirely on Apple.

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I wish that would work when you don't have internet.

Had to fall back to old school bluetooth, and like 1 MB/s to share a video with a friend.

It does, and it works to windows machines too

Does it use internet to open up the connection? Because I vividly remember the share screen not even finding the other device (and vice versa). Could also be extremely slow internet being worse than no connection at all

I’ve been using AirDrop to send files between different mames of iOS phone and tablet for ages.

The fact that you are impressed that different products from the same brand are interoperable between them says volumes about Apple and Apple users.

Android didn't have a way to share files between them for the longest time. Initially there was Beam but it never worked. The first semi-reliable way to exchange files between two android phones, without using a third party utility, was Nearby Share dates from 2020.

So yeah, it's a low bar, but one that only Apple bothered to clear from the get go apparently.

Ah, uneducated smugness, another Apple trait. It's been possible to share files between any android since 2009, via Bluetooth.

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