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   tom jennings (tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Sunday, 25-May-2025 09:22:58 JST tom jennings

   Here's two things that bug me about phones.

   One, we can't routinely share files directly, phone to phone. You're playing a song, I like it, you send it to me.

   Two, no one notices this. This is worse.

   There's world's of shit that would have followed from this. You share playlists with a friend. Phone: "do you want me to put them side by side and compare?"

   Organize, compare, track, tag, groups...

   Songs, spreadsheets, documents whatever.

   Palm Pilots, even, could do the basics. It's been taken from us.

   And the worst part, no one notices of asks for such.

   Copyright and IP is not involved in responses. That's a corporate issue not a human one.

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Sunday, 25-May-2025 09:26:16 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @tomjennings I've quite noticed it because well… having an old phone without the USB cable for it, I still think about bluetooth.
     Plus I know some Android devices don't support USB thumbdrives at OS-level (boot up a Unix-like OS like SailfishOS/PostmarketOS/UbuntuTouch/… on them and it works).
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     Peter Krefting (nafmo@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Sunday, 25-May-2025 17:56:48 JST Peter Krefting

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     @tomjennings I haven't in a while, but Bluetooth file transfer used to work fine in the early smartphone days (before iPhone and Android), and often still does (Android).

     MacOS broke their support since time ago, did iOS also?