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I swear we had a feature like NameDrop from many years ago. Or am I crazy? Maybe it was a Linkedin feature or some 3rd party apps.

NameDrop seems like it's an annoying feature - potentially a privacy concern.

It's one of those features that look cool in a demo but hardly anyone will ever use it, and it'll annoy people more than it will be used intentionally.

I also don't understand the new Airdrop feature. Why would you hold the phones close to each other, which is very unnatural, instead of just selecting who to Airdrop to? These proximity things almost never work the way you want them to.
Your not crazy. It was an app called Bump! It was really popular when I was in college in 2009 when iPhones where taking off in popularity. It was also around the time when Siri was just an 3rd party app.

 
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I guess I'm not the target demographic for this.

I rarely need to share files on my phone with others while not near a computer. I'll text things like contact info, maybe some photos. But anything else goes through the firewall and VPN computer via DropBox or similar.
 
so.. ibeacon is long dead (comatose?). but for commercial purposes it would be great if you could take a raspberry pi or something and build a device that could air drop something to a passer by (if they chose to receive it).

edit: googling - this might be possible...
 
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Allow me to AirDrop permanently instead of just 10 bloody minutes, absolutely stupid change especially when we have no option to change it and have to change a setting everytime I want to share something. It supposed to work easily without having to think about it.
 
I remember ‘name drop’ as a Blackberry feature some 20+ years ago. Seems like it was via NFC or ‘infra-red’ but can’t recall exactly. Think it was called ‘beaming’. Was a novelty at the time.
Yep. I'm pretty sure BlackBerry had it. One of multiple good ideas from them... plus some not very good ones, and some terrible implementations.
 
I also don't understand the new Airdrop feature. Why would you hold the phones close to each other, which is very unnatural, instead of just selecting who to Airdrop to? These proximity things almost never work the way you want them to.
You don’t have to hold your phones together. You can just go to Contacts, select your contact and airdrop to anyone in the room. It will work just fine.
NameDrop just makes it automatic.
 
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Apple seem absolutely determined to have ON DEVICE surveillance in whatever guise they have to use. its wrong, its utilising customers own equipment bought and paid for. By all means if it’s on Apple Servers/Google etc., they can peek all they like, but users devices should be sacrosanct. It’s a slippery slope to having backdoors to our own devices for all and sundry. Makes a mockery of any comments about Apple privacy if ON DEVICE. Apple have already been found wanting over these issues, the same as they seem to acquiesce to whatever Chinese Government wants imposed on iPhones there.
So you don’t understand at all what doing this kind of processing on-device means. Gotcha.
 
Apple seem absolutely determined to have ON DEVICE surveillance in whatever guise they have to use. its wrong, its utilising customers own equipment bought and paid for. By all means if its on Apple Servers/Google etc., they can peek all they like, but users devices should be sacrosanct. Its a slippery slope to having backdoors to our own devices for all and sundry. Makes a mockery of any comments about Apple privacy if ON DEVICE. Apple have already been found wanting over these issues, the same as they seem to acquiesce to whatever Chinese Government wants imposed on iPhones there.

Shaking my head... :( So close and yet so far... You're leaving potential forum cred on the table. Stop it.

Next time add the crowd-pleaser "Tim Cook should have been fired YEARS AGO" for the closer.
 
Yeah, having to change it to "Everyone for 10 Minutes" every 10 Minutes is annoying.
yea the chinese gov pushed this for apple in china. Apple said it would be china only and now its everyone. no one was asking for this.
 
I wish AirDrop had an option to just work over the local subnet - wired or wireless. My wife was trying to AirDrop something from our iMac to her iPad earlier this morning... she had to turn the iMac's wifi on before it would work, even though the iMac's wired connection is on the same subnet as the iPad's wireless connection.
 
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