Google's AirDrop Support For Pixel 10 Likely Exists Because of EU's Apple Ruling (9to5google.com) 15
Last week, Google surprised the tech world when it announced AirDrop support on Pixel 10 devices -- all without Apple's involvement. "While it initially seemed like this was a rogue move made by Google to coerce Apple into another boundary-breaking decision, it might actually be part of the repercussions that also led to USB-C on iPhone and the adoption of RCS," reports 9to5Google. From a report: As reported by Ars Technica, the answer to this week's mysterious Quick Share upgrade lies in the EU's interoperability requirements designed for the DMA. The ruling out of the European Commission pushed Apple to begin supporting interoperable wireless standards beginning with this year's set of OS upgrades, replacing the previous proprietary standard the company used to power its various Continuity features. That forced Apple to add support for the Wi-Fi Alliance's Wi-Fi Aware standard of multi-directional file sharing, at the cost of completely phasing out its previous walled-in protocol.
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What are you ranting about? AirDrop is on the Mac.
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Wrong.
Not even sure what you're talking about concerning AirPlay. What Google implemented was AirDrop, not AirPlay.
Regardless, I've used Google's Implementation going both to and from my Macbook Pro. It's the real deal. Works beautifully.
That's why you're sitting at a zero score on your post. Do more research next time.
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Yes, along with copy and paste and other Continuity features.
Mysterious (Score:4, Funny)
Consumers can be served better through regulation
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You are welcome.
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Depends. If it results in people spamming you with AirDrop requests because they can have a tool that just sends AirDrop requests to everyone all the time on Android, Apple might start doing stuff about it.
Of course, if it's because of the DMA, they'll likely leave that as a feature saying - the law makes it impossible for us to prevent this, Too bad so sad. Everyone else though, gets the ability to filter AirDrop spam out.
But chances are Google just reverse engineered the protocol, either with or without A
From what I've seen, this is actually not true (Score:4, Informative)
I haven't dug too far into it but recall reading this the other day on /r/android from one of the regulars - mostly contradicting the Ars story.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Andro... [reddit.com]
Wrong (Score:5, Informative)
Mishaal Rahman reported that this is likely Google's reengineering of AWDL, not Wi-Fi Direct as has been reported by Ars Technica and others.
https://androiddev.social/@Mis... [androiddev.social]