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Samsung's Long-Awaited Answer to AirDrop Expected to Arrive Next Month
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Snapdrop requires an internet connection, and implies network connectivity between the two devices. AirDrop does not require the device in question to be on the same network…or even on a network. That's the magic of AirDrop.
You are right, it is not stable. I use it all the time to drop stuff between iPad, iPhone, and Mac. What I found is that it does not like large files. So if I have lots of videos I do drop few at a time. Devices not appearing is not an issue for me, but it may have to do with one of the devices being too old maybe? For me, devices showing up is instant, except when I am dropping to someone who has not set it to receive from anyone. I still find the AirDrop very useful.
Same, I don't get how people use it at all. Not once has it worked when I needed it.
Airdrop has been extremely reliable for me. It used to be extremely buggy, but I think this has been fixed in the last 2-3 years.
I met up with my insurance agent who used his iPad to access a website that generated some pdf documents, I used airdrop to transfer those files to my iPhone directly. Or I visit a bookshop and want to order some stationery, so I use airdrop to pass the photos directly to the sales assistant (so she doesn’t need to pass me her phone number, which is way less awkward). Or last year when needed to stitch together a video for a school event, I got my colleagues to each take a few videos and then airdrop them to my iPad directly. No muss, no fuss.
Only downside is that this didn’t work with android phones, so I have to be more aware of what phone the people around me use.
Same here. I use it all the time and have also encountered scenarios like that. At a holiday party I captured video of a proposal that happened. I was able to airdrop the video to the mother of the soon-to-be-bride. I don't have any need to have her phone number and I didn't need it to send it to her. Just great.
I don’t use airdrop a lot but I enjoy reading how other people use it to solve everyday problems.
There is a conundrum in life; having enough knowledge to know you are correct, but not enough to know you are wrong. Thus read the following:
Quote: "Saying Apple stole from Xerox is like saying that the Boeing innovations that made the 707 possible were stolen from the Wright Brothers. The Mac team was allowed to briefly glimpse a prototype machine that used a very limited graphical interface for a few applications, and went off and created the worlds first fully graphical computer, with a far more sophisticated and useful interface, and at a far lower
Whatever Apple got from those three days was bought and paid for as part of a fair, legal, above-the-table business deal between Xerox and Apple.
At the time, Apple was still a year away from its IPO. Everybody wanted in. Apple was the hottest of hot companies. So Xerox and Apple made a deal: Apple would be granted 3 days of access to PARC in exchange for Xerox being allowed to buy 100,000 shares of Apple stock for $10 per share.
Apple went public a year later, and the value of that stock had grown to $17.6 million. Xerox paid a million for the shares, so essentially Apple paid Xerox $16.6 million for showing its research to Jobs and his team.
With stock splits those shares today worth over 500 million dollars. Thus, the bottom line is that Jobs didn’t steal from Xerox. He paid for whatever he got, fair and square.
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Now, please check your Xerox and Apple history.
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i never mentioned stole. Please do not add words to my post.I am posting on an Apple fan site. So I assumed people here knows the story of Apple and Xerox.
My point is that nothing is created in a vacuum. I wanted to combat the notion that Apple is so original and everyone else “copies”