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0 pointsricardobeat3y ago0 comments

To this date I'm perplexed by how hard it is to send anything from one device to another in close proximity.

I remember being surprised when the first BT capable (Motorola?) phone I had couldn't send photos to a laptop, maybe twenty years ago. iPhones never got that ability over bluetooth. Airdrop is still hit and miss.

Bump.me was the closest thing to perfection, unfortunately Facebook acquired and immediately threw it in the dumpster.

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molasses3y ago

What was bump.me? Photo sharing is why Instagram, Facebook and Whatsapp is insanely popular. Sharing photos is just difficult.

I've had to resort in the past of putting a small web server on the phone, just to get files off it via WIFI. But of course that's clunky.

If peer to peer networking were easier, trustable etc, it could be a real life saver. There's some feature in Google Files that's WIFI sharing, but I haven't tried it.

ricardobeatOP3y ago

You’d select a photo or any file to transfer, bump your phones together and ta-da, it was sent over. No accounts or friend lists necessary.

It used a mix of geolocation and wireless signals to determine the match and worked flawlessly. You could even do the same with a computer by bumping the phone against the spacebar!

This was over a decade ago. It’s very depressing to see great tech like this just disappear into the void.

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