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

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223 points stusmall | 3 comments | 28 Mar 25 13:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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mschuster91 ◴[28 Mar 25 14:07 UTC] No.43505607[source]▶
The interesting question is authentication/authorization - at the moment, macOS greatly simplifies this as long as both devices belong to the same Apple ID. On the opposite side, Samsung does the same.

How will that work out?

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lxgr ◴[28 Mar 25 15:30 UTC] No.43506685[source]▶
That's certainly a nice feature, but in comparison to the elephant in the room, i.e. wireless file transfers between Android and iOS being completely impossible at the moment, it's completely insignificant.
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dmitrygr ◴[28 Mar 25 23:27 UTC] No.43511001[source]▶
Nice of you to state your option as fact. Now let me try. Compat with Android is “completely insignificant” but magical auto-auth based on Apple ID is the “elephant in the room”. See how that works?
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1. lxgr ◴[29 Mar 25 03:02 UTC] No.43512344[source]▶
I meant the opposite: Cross-platform compatibility is what’s sorely missing, and authentication is only a cherry on top, so I don’t think it ought to be a blocker.
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2. dmitrygr ◴[29 Mar 25 03:25 UTC] No.43512460[source]▶
The reason iMessage has less spam than SMS is that it has a cost associated: the cost of an apple device. It is our gated community and we do not want it force-opened to the public. Better?
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3. lxgr ◴[29 Mar 25 03:57 UTC] No.43512598[source]▶
Not sure if you’re being ironic, but I use an iPhone too (and as such “own property in the gated community”), and I very much do want iMessage force-opened to the public if that’s what it takes to get Apple to make it interoperable.

Compared to a decade ago or two, there are too many silos in communication these days as it is.