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Re:Apple wins the antitrust court battle with Epic Games, co... by zamnos on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @02:27AM (#35697191)
KDE Connect works as well as airdrop between iOS and Desktop Linux and Android, and isn't a unintrospectable proprietary protocol. Apple could choose to use that instead but, as you pointed out, it's a competitive advantage for them to lock others out.

Playing well with others was a lesson I learned in preschool. Too bad that lesson's been replaced by avarice.

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Re:Apple wins the antitrust court battle with Epic Games, co... by ubermonkey on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @09:10AM (#35699949)
It's still super weird that people complain about Apple making features for its platforms and then NOT making them interoperable with other platforms.

It's a weird refusal to understand how markets and platform advantages work.

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Re:Apple wins the antitrust court battle with Epic Games, co... by brookst on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @10:29AM (#35701008)
Airdrop does not use bluetooth. It uses AWDL, which uses the wifi radio to establish a time-sliced network of nearby devices.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326928162_One_Billi...

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