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iOS 7 May Include AirDrop Wireless File Sharing Capabilities
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But messages sends it to every device you have registered to that iCloud account. Might as well get a Dropbox account and stick everything you need in it.
What he meant was that it doesn't require you to connect to a wifi network. It makes an ad hoc connection.
Open it up, dammit!
Air Drop is nice and all, but Apple (like so many others, incl. Google re new Jabber-incompatible Hangouts) has to accept that vertical development, with all its benefits, ends when it comes to networks, i.e. when people and devices communicate with each other we need standards every one may comply to. Open and free standards are cool of course, but even if a company has designed a proprietary protocol they should license or publicize it so others can implement it on different platforms.
Jobs promised this for Face Time the instance he announced it and never delivered. One of my greatest disappointments with Apple so far. (i)Message is another case, iCloud too (since it employs standard protocols underneath, just obfuscates them) and Air Play etc.
If they must, they could keep it Apple-only for one SW/HW generation to make it a buying incentive, but release it to third parties after that. Its really sad to have to wait for some hacker to figure out some scrambling key and reverse engineer the whole thing, as has happened for Air Tunes/Play for instance.
Air Drop is nice and all, but Apple (like so many others, incl. Google re new Jabber-incompatible Hangouts) has to accept that vertical development, with all its benefits, ends when it comes to networks, i.e. when people and devices communicate with each other we need standards every one may comply to. Open and free standards are cool of course, but even if a company has designed a proprietary protocol they should license or publicize it so others can implement it on different platforms.
Jobs promised this for Face Time the instance he announced it and never delivered. One of my greatest disappointments with Apple so far. (i)Message is another case, iCloud too (since it employs standard protocols underneath, just obfuscates them) and Air Play etc.
If they must, they could keep it Apple-only for one SW/HW generation to make it a buying incentive, but release it to third parties after that. Its really sad to have to wait for some hacker to figure out some scrambling key and reverse engineer the whole thing, as has happened for Air Tunes/Play for instance.
So basically over the course of six years Apple will have "invented" bluetooth file transfer, which should have been in iOS1? Except proprietary and limited to other Apple devices. Whoop.
That said, this is actually good news - it would be a useful feature, and more importantly I don't see how you could completely cripple this into being useless without having some form of basic file management and cross app access. Which iOS desperately, desperately needs.
That said, this is actually good news - it would be a useful feature, and more importantly I don't see how you could completely cripple this into being useless without having some form of basic file management and cross app access. Which iOS desperately, desperately needs.
You should look at disk aid 6 does all of the above! Gives you access to the whole iPhone file system which you can then put on your mac
Yeah, if one can AirDrop a pdf or text file from a Mac to an iOS device where will it go?
Yes you absolutely right , it will be fine if apple implements in built in file system
You don't need to be on a WiFi network, but you do need to turn on the WiFi hardware.
The implications of this may be larger than you are thinking. Possibly a centralized file store for iOS that any app can access...meaning you no lo get have to copy documents from one app to another, and can do other things like direct email attachments from Mail.app.
This has to be the most pathetic thing i've read on here....and that's saying something.
Apple should release an iRadio service that only plays the top 100 songs of the day. They can call it iHits. Then Samsung will follow suit...
I can already email attachments to folks. I know how to do that. It works pretty fast if I'm on LTE, which I probably will be if I'm sending this from my i5 to another i5. Yes it uses data on cell service, but often I'm on wifi, so I'm not hitting my cell limit.
Nice feature. But the percentage of folks who ever use this more than as a novelty strikes me as going to be very small.
Nice feature. But the percentage of folks who ever use this more than as a novelty strikes me as going to be very small.
Or it could be implemented similarly to the "share" panel that already exists where you initiate it inside of particular apps rather than as a single system wide app.
AirDrop on iOS
It's about time!
I often scan in documents and very often download PDFs that I love to carry on my iOS devices. The only way to get them there easily is to sync them via iTunes. Very arduous and time consuming. AirDrop'ing from OSX to my iOS devices would be very welcomed convenience for me.
Apple really better step up the game with iOS 7...
It's about time!
I often scan in documents and very often download PDFs that I love to carry on my iOS devices. The only way to get them there easily is to sync them via iTunes. Very arduous and time consuming. AirDrop'ing from OSX to my iOS devices would be very welcomed convenience for me.
Apple really better step up the game with iOS 7...
