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

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223 points stusmall | 1 comments | 28 Mar 25 13:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | 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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dathinab ◴[29 Mar 25 00:11 UTC] No.43511373[source]▶
nothing excepts it doesn't make sense for them

basically the mandate requires them to not hamper WI-FI Aware in anyway which pushes developers into using AWDL instead, i.e. they require it to be as good +- some technical differences in features not so relevant for 3rd party use cases

and if you provide something which works as good why should they keep AWDL around, it's just double the dev cost and AWDL is getting older and Wi-Fi Aware is getting nice WiFi7 improvements soon

so as long as they don't have some use case outside of what Wi-Fi Aware is supposed to do which happens to work with AWDL they keeping both around long term is not a very good decision economically

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1. dwaite ◴[29 Mar 25 03:17 UTC] No.43512425[source]▶
That seems to be based on the assumption that a fully compliant Wi-Fi Aware implementation would be equal or superior in every case to an optimized, proprietary protocol.