[zionic]

AirDrop is 100x slower than the equivalent wired solution. I say this as someone transfering 350GB of media off their phone on friday, Apple needs to fix wired file access from mac to phone.

[Hamuko]

Lightning is limited to 53 MB/s by the sheer virtue of being USB 2.0, and probably is even slower in real life, so AirDrop would be at maximum 0.5 MB/s?

[ulfw]

Of course it's not.

https://www.shaunpoore.com/why-is-airdrop-fast/

[hbn]

I think they were saying it's 100x slower than if Apple just used modern over-wire transfer methods.

I'm also thinking the "100x" was not a genuine mathematical assertion