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The lack of AirDrop integration before is probably one of the obnoxious things Apple has done recently. I'm really excited for this simple new feature.


> one of the obnoxious things Apple has done recently

AirDrop pre-iOS8 (iCloud Drive, Extensibility) would have been almost totally useless or at minimum required developers to waste time supporting a temporary solution.


AirDrop is a end-user feature above all else provided by the OS. It's not true that it would have required developers to support a temporary solution.

My understanding is that on OS X AirDrop was wi-fi only but on iOS it used a combination of wi-fi and Bluetooth.




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