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Re:Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using... by lxgr on Thursday December 24, 2020 @10:33AM (#25528328)
Very true. I had high hopes for Google's "nearby share" which was initially announced as a cross-platform networkless way to share files, but these ambitions seem to have been scaled back to "Android to Android only, and it sometimes uses mobile data as a fallback"...
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Re:Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using... by confiq on Thursday December 24, 2020 @11:14AM (#25528739)
Because rest of OS will not accept it as a standard...
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Re:Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using... by sercand on Friday December 25, 2020 @12:37AM (#25534469)
And it is works only with the contacts in a phone. Most of the time I need to send a file from a company device and I have to add me to contacts in the shared testing device to make it work.
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