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    11 months ago

    Remember when you could just tap your phone on someone else’s?

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      11 months ago

      That never worked right for me. Every phone had its NFC chip at a different location on the back, so you always had to figure out where the hell you had to tap the phones.

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        11 months ago

        People know where their chip is now though because of contactless

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      11 months ago

      Was called Bump. And then Apple introduces it this year as if it’s some new thing.

      I have no idea why sharing files between devices has to be so complicated. Bring the devices close together, get NFC connected, use P2P wifi to send the files. This is not that difficult.

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        11 months ago

        It worked previously with Bluetooth. Then instead of Google changing it to work with nearby share instead, it just kills it for no reason.