Gotta love the war driving metaphor! I've never used this on OS X let alone iOS. It sounded ridiculous on both platforms. For p2p sharing I'm partial to the new BitTorrent client application. Runs on Apple products and everything else as well.
-lee On Monday, November 10, 2014, Nathan of Guardian < [email protected]> wrote: > > Interesting that this is possible... I suppose Bluetooth is not so > dissimilar if you are discoverable, but in this case, the recipient does > see a preview of the media shared. > > > http://www.theverge.com/tldr/2014/11/10/7171345/the-best-use-for-apple-airdrop-is-space-sloths > > "Each day I get on the train to make the half hour voyage into San > Francisco for work, I am surrounded by people using their phones. Many > have iPhones or iPads, and have a setting turned on that lets me send > them unsolicited files through AirDrop. Where Apple envisioned it as a > way to send useful files and websites to friends and acquaintances, I > use it to send photos of sloths to strangers. And not just any sloths, > but sloths wearing spacesuits." > > ... > > "By default, the feature is not set to share with everyone. In fact, > AirDrop itself is not even turned on until you use it for the first > time. But I've found that a surprising number of people have flipped it > on, and set it to accept things from the entire world. I assume that's > by mistake, but by the time they've realized that, I've already struck. > They can, of course, decline the AirSloth, but I know they've seen a > small preview of it." > > _______________________________________________ > Guardian-dev mailing list > > Post: [email protected] <javascript:;> > List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev > > To Unsubscribe > Send email to: [email protected] > <javascript:;> > Or visit: > https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/options/guardian-dev/lee%40guardianproject.info > > You are subscribed as: [email protected] <javascript:;> >
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