[grecy]

When using Apple devices I often feel like ordinary people sat down and said "I wish I could do X", and so Apple make that work, and they make it insanely easy to do.

AirDrop, syncing stuff, backups, auto adjust volume for headphones, no screen flicker on startup, trackpad that freaking works, etc.

When I use Windows, I feel like a committee decided something over a long period of time, and it is as convoluted and painful as the many decision makers could make it.

[lukeschlather]

I feel like Apple sat down and said "how can we make sure this NEVER works unless you're only using Apple devices?" and intentionally sabotaged open standards.

The last time I had to do this between two Android devices I just used wifi direct and it worked flawlessly. And yet Apple doesn't support WiFi direct? I can't explain Windows, but the fact that iOS won't interoperate with Android seems like an intentional choice by Apple to make their customers' lives harder.

[grecy]

> The last time I had to do this between two Android devices I just used wifi direct and it worked flawlessly

And you had to disconnect each device from the wifi they were using, separately.. and you couldn't use the internet during the transfer. That's a no from me.

[lukeschlather]

I was on an airplane, so that wasn't a problem at all, and the lack of Internet was what made it a necessity.

[grecy]

So it's something you do infrequently then.

Airdrop is something I use 10x a week.

[lukeschlather]

I've needed to transfer files between an iOS device and an Android device pretty regularly lately and it's simply impossible, I've literally been waiting months to transfer a few files because the person who has the files has an iPhone and has difficulty using any method other than Airdrop (e.g. Dropbox.) Which I view to be an intentional design decision by Apple. WiFi direct would be fine, Airdrop is proprietary and useless here.