Google cracked Apple’s AirDrop and is adding it to Pixel phones
www.theverge.com
First iMessage reactions, now AirDrop.
  • LCP@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    18·
    1 month ago

    Google just announced some unexpected and welcome news: Pixel 10 owners can now send and receive files with Apple devices over AirDrop.
    […]
    "We’re bringing this new experience to Pixel 10 first before expanding to other devices.”
    […]
    Moriconi confirmed it was not a collab. “We accomplished this through our own implementation,” he tells The Verge.

    Pretty cool. I wonder what led Google to develop this and how Apple will react.

    • Voytrekk@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      151·
      1 month ago

      I wonder if Apple will lock it down further. If they did, it could cause some backlash from users of older devices that are no longer receiving updates.

      That being said, there is already an open source option that is completely cross-platform in LocalSend.

          • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
            32·
            1 month ago

            That great, if you’re both connected to the same WiFi network and LocalSend comes pre-installed on both of your devices.

            • SteveEnglish
              2·
              1 month ago

              What does it need to be pre-installed?

              • akilou@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                111·
                1 month ago

                Because people with iPhones, famously, will refuse to even try to include anyone without an iPhone if it means they need to do anything whatsoever, such as install a new app

              • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
                71·
                1 month ago

                Because no one is going to install an app just to receive a photo from you.

                • SteveEnglish
                  16·
                  1 month ago

                  You think it’s single use? Only works the one time? Really?

      • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        That being said, there is already an open source option that is completely cross-platform in LocalSend.

        Indeed, this is what I use… Jist i stall Airdrop ffs.

        Zero chance of me using Airdop, similary if iMessage was opened, zero chance there as well.

    • Pycorax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      14·
      1 month ago

      That’s interesting because this article from Ars talks about how this is a new standard that Apple was made to adopt as part of the DMA.

  • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
    5·
    1 month ago

    No way Apple doesn’t pull some Green Bubble type shit in response, like throttling the fuck out of the speed when it detects it’s not an iPhone on the other side