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Flax_vert ,

Remember when you could just tap your phone on someone else’s?

newthrowaway20 ,

That never worked right for me. Every phone had its NFC chip at a different location on the back, so you always had to figure out where the hell you had to tap the phones.

Flax_vert ,

People know where their chip is now though because of contactless

rgb3x3 ,

Was called Bump. And then Apple introduces it this year as if it’s some new thing.

I have no idea why sharing files between devices has to be so complicated. Bring the devices close together, get NFC connected, use P2P wifi to send the files. This is not that difficult.

Flax_vert ,

It worked previously with Bluetooth. Then instead of Google changing it to work with nearby share instead, it just kills it for no reason.

baatliwala ,

What? People are already learning what Nearby Share is. Why change the fucking branding?

hitmyspot ,

So they can add a messaging service and then kill it.

Carighan ,
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

The point exactly. Google does not do successful branding, it’s against some internal mandate apparently.

Flax_vert ,

Makes a new messaging app every few years

Complains when iMessage has a monopoly

The complaints are valid, but Google had more than enough power to compete

mp3 ,
@mp3@lemmy.ca avatar

Meh, it was as confusing as Android Nearby Share being incompatible with Windows Nearby Share.

baronvonj ,
@baronvonj@lemmy.world avatar

Seriously what’s that about?

mp3 ,
@mp3@lemmy.ca avatar

Two companies using a somewhat generic name for their own implementation of a system that is not interoperable.

Flax_vert ,

Weren’t they planning on making it interoperable?

mp3 ,
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I don’t think so.

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