Haha when Apple announce that and my first thought was Bump!
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Apple Announces New 'NameDrop' Feature for Sharing Between iPhones
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Haha when Apple announce that and my first thought was Bump!
I remember when that app was introduced. Me and my colleague tried it a couple times — didn't work, that's why it went away, from my iPhone at least)))
Great! I really missed this from Android. It's one of those things you don't often use but you're glad you have when you need it.
If only Apple and Google would make it work across platforms one day...
If only Apple and Google would make it work across platforms one day...
Name Drop: So I'll be able to do the thing I could do with my early-2000's Palm PDA? Fascinating.
Thank you. My first thought was “man didn’t they buy Bump like thirteen years ago? Took them a while.”
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Bingo. PalmOS 3.0 (1998) added support for IrDA and added the "beam" feature allowing direct device-to-device transfer of all kinds of data, including contacts.
It was very popular at the time. So 25 years later, Apple introduces the same thing. But not as good because you need to bring the phones very close to each other, not just point them at each other.
You can now use SharePlay in CarPlay !, so someone can add music to up next or take over being the DJ..No CarPlay updates
I'm guessing there will be a peer-peer invite issued first. I do wonder how close "close together" actually is with effective range for both devices.
And now if only Apple and droid would play nicely together, we could all get back to being in the current, rather than stuck in the 80's.
And yeah, I know, it is mostly Apple that are being petulant spoilt brats, not Android.