I do love bureaucrats who could not tell Wifi from InfraRed deciding what comms standards are to be used.
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- I texted it to you, but it looks like crap, because MMS is crap
- I tried to email it to you but it's over 2 megs and I have to walk downstairs, get it off my phone and onto a Real Computer™, then scale it down
- I emailed you a Google Drive link, wait what do you mean you don't know how to sign into that? Yeah just use that app... oh wait no that's a different Google Account from the one you have your Gmail on
- No, I'm not using Messenger, I don't like getting my data zucked by Facebook
- Hey, there's this very easy way you can send files, you just need to install this app - what do you mean you forgot your Apple ID password for the third time this week?
- Let me run downstairs and get my special USB-C flash drive - oh god damn it you still have the phones with Lightning ports on them
- Let me run downstairs and grab my iPad, chuck the image over to it using Dropbox, then AirDrop you
AirDrop just works, not because it's Apple, but because having a direct P2P transfer utility built into every phone and laptop cuts out all sorts of setup and permissioning issues. Apple just decided their protocol was going to be the only one they'd support, and that everyone else who bought the wrong phone should pound sand.