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Cross-Platform P2P Wi-Fi: How the EU Killed AWDL

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223 points stusmall | 2 comments | 28 Mar 25 13:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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lawlessone ◴[28 Mar 25 15:58 UTC] No.43506997[source]▶
>A quietly published EU interoperability roadmap mandates Apple support Wi-Fi Aware 4.0 in iOS 19 and v5.0,1 thereafter, essentially forcing AWDL into retirement.

Whats stopping Apple from doing both?

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0x457 ◴[28 Mar 25 16:18 UTC] No.43507195[source]▶
Nothing, but since Apple is the only user of AWDL and WiFi Aware makes it redundant, why support both (in long term)?
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1. dmitrygr ◴[28 Mar 25 23:25 UTC] No.43510979[source]▶
I’ll bet $100 that AWDL is better designed and will work better. It isn’t like Google didn’t have all the time and chances to do this right. Android beam worked 50% of the time. IIRC half of the failures were BT and half were WiFi. Airdrop is much more reliable than 50%
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2. 0x457 ◴[03 Apr 25 20:14 UTC] No.43574800[source]▶
I think it's an android problem and not WiFi Aware problem