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A comment on One Billion Apples’ Secret Sauce: Recipe for Apple Wireless Direct Link Protocol.

Re:One Billion Apples’ Secret Sauce: Recipe for Apple Wirele... by bunnycorn on Sunday September 30, 2018 @11:31AM (#18106569)
Nice, I really wish this protocol would be available for Android as the number of applications would be immense (Apple's Multipeer Connectivity Framework).

But it looks like Apple will deprecate this sooner or later, since they have joined The Thread Group [1]

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2018/08/07/apple-thread-group-smar...

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Re:One Billion Apples’ Secret Sauce: Recipe for Apple Wirele... by djrogers on Sunday September 30, 2018 @11:34AM (#18106583)
I really don’t see Thread as being in the same ballpark as AWDL - they have very different goals and use cases.
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