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by mschuster91 451 days ago
> P2P proximal wireless transfer, sure, but there's half a dozen apps on your phone that'll let you punt a document, a photo, an invite to someone on the other phone OS platform.

Yeah, via their server, which means it's slow even if you have wifi, requires valuable data credit if not, or it requires the installation of a companion app on the other device and putting the other device in the same network.
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MaKey 451 days ago
The biggest point for me is privacy. I don't want to upload private data to some server just to send it to another device that's next to mine.
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apitman 451 days ago
Most quality apps should be e2ee right?
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MaKey 450 days ago
Do you have an example for such an app? I don't know anybody using 3rd party file transfer apps. Usually files are uploaded to some cloud service (iCloud, OneDrive, ...) and then shared with a link if they can't be sent via messaging apps like WhatsApp or Signal.
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