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Flying Carpet | Cross-platform AirDrop between Android/iOS/Linux/macOS/Windows via ad hoc WiFi (f-droid.org)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (4 children)

If only this also could be compatible with the Apple AirDrop, so we Linux users can receive files from Apple devices or send files from non-Apple to Apple without having to install something on the Apple device.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Apple will never support other devices with any of their technology. It's against their ethos on a fundamental level, since their inception.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

And the other way around is impossible too? Is it impossible for 3rd party implementations to support the closed AirDrop protocol (through some sort of "hack", I don't know)?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Possibly but Apple would just "patch" it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

It's already been done: https://github.com/seemoo-lab/opendrop

There are two problems:

Apple is able to make airdop so seamless because they ensure their devices support a special feature, wifi direct: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/428700
Nothing stops apple from just changing how airdop works to break the open source version's compatibility.