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Re:Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop by fidotron on Sunday January 21, 2024 @11:07AM (#39079686)
ISTR around something like the Galaxy Nexus Google doing demos of beaming files between devices via WiFi Direct after having exchanged info with an NFC tap.

But that was just before they decided everything had to go via their cloud.

Curiously if you used a London bus in around 2005 with bluetooth on you would experience a lot of files being sent to you via ad hoc networks.

Re:Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop by tomasff on Sunday January 21, 2024 @11:12AM (#39079756)
I think the modern alternative is Nearby Share which works via BLE or WiFi with Android / Windows / ChromeOS