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Since nobody has mentioned it yet here, I'm really glad to see AirDrop will finally work between OSX and iOS. It's bothered me for awhile that they have these two different things called "AirDrop" which were not compatible with one another.

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The lack of AirDrop integration before is probably one of the obnoxious things Apple has done recently. I'm really excited for this simple new feature.

> one of the obnoxious things Apple has done recently

AirDrop pre-iOS8 (iCloud Drive, Extensibility) would have been almost totally useless or at minimum required developers to waste time supporting a temporary solution.

AirDrop is a end-user feature above all else provided by the OS. It's not true that it would have required developers to support a temporary solution.

My understanding is that on OS X AirDrop was wi-fi only but on iOS it used a combination of wi-fi and Bluetooth.

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