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What's the problem with Bluetooth? File sharing between smartphones and computers has worked every single time for me, and it's natively build into all devices.



I have never gotten a Bluetooth device to ever work. I've heard tell of people using Bluetooth, but I think it's an urban myth.


It works for keyboards and mice made by the same vendor as your OS but otherwise it's junk. Terrible protocol.


i heard a joke that "it'll work great next year" is the permanent slogan for bluetooth.

personally i can report a C+ experience usually. generally functional, maybe even reliable for a brief while, but buggy as hell throughout.


On Android, its built in.

Windows Mobile < 8? Nope iOS? Nope


It isn't? Wow, Apple. Also, who uses Windows phones?


Apple can use bluetooth for file sharing. It's part of their 'Airdrop' feature, which uses bluetooth + wifi to move files around. (I think bt is only used to negotiate temporary wifi settings, and then the actual file exchange takes place over wifi.)

But once again, the real problem here is that Airdrop is apple-specific. We still have the same fundamental problem that despite having many direct file sharing choices, there is no common way across all the OS/hardware platforms.


just confirmed: tried to send an image from android to mac. Complete failure (on Apples side?)

didn't even try to use Bluetooth for ages, because every time it results in nightmares.

( and yes: Bluetooth was activated and connected )


The people on countries that paying for an iPhone would cost too much versus their life costs and don't want to use Android.


Windows Phone doesn't have significant traction anywhere in the world.


Many southern and east European and South America countries used to have around 10%, before the last layoffs round and the broken promise to upgrade 8.1 devices to WP 10.

Can gladly provide you the link to consulting companies that sell such reports.


"Used to have 10% before a bunch of bad stuff" is exactly what I meant, Windows Phone has no significant adoption anywhere in the world.


People don't throw away their phones on the garbage can, just because some people on HN think they should.


Apple always bakes their own bread...

And plenty of people have to use their company Windows phone.


Until iOS came around they had absolutely excellent Bluetooth support in OS X, including file sharing and even stuff like contact sync with dumbphones which worked really well.


Also on Symbian and S40 it was already a well known feature.


iOS only supports sending files though their proprietary AirDrop. OS X does support Bluetooth file sharing though.


Isn't it ridiculously slow?


Last time I tried it I got a couple of hundred kByte/s. Not very fast, but doable. Wouldn't transfer dvd iso' with it ;-)




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