CAVOK@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 11 hours agoThe EU wants Apple to open AirDrop and AirPlay to Android and other platforms9to5google.comexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1119arrow-down11cross-posted to: android@lemdro.idapple@lemmy.zip
arrow-up1118arrow-down1external-linkThe EU wants Apple to open AirDrop and AirPlay to Android and other platforms9to5google.comCAVOK@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 11 hours agomessage-square24fedilinkcross-posted to: android@lemdro.idapple@lemmy.zip
minus-squareSerinus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 hours agoI tried to share a contact yesterday from Android to Apple. Quick share doesn’t work. QR code doesn’t work. I had to get their phone number and send it over SMS in text. Ridiculous.
minus-squareBearOfaTime@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-26 hours agoYou can share a contact from your contacts app to any service - it’ll attach a vcard. Works both ways. Yea, it’s harder than it should be, when Palm had this capability via infrared in 1996.
minus-squareSerinus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 hours agoI wasn’t sure Apple would take a vCard, so after failing QR, I sent both the vCard and the info in plain text over SMS. Harder than it should be. Android could have just done a QR code.
I tried to share a contact yesterday from Android to Apple. Quick share doesn’t work. QR code doesn’t work.
I had to get their phone number and send it over SMS in text. Ridiculous.
You can share a contact from your contacts app to any service - it’ll attach a vcard.
Works both ways. Yea, it’s harder than it should be, when Palm had this capability via infrared in 1996.
I wasn’t sure Apple would take a vCard, so after failing QR, I sent both the vCard and the info in plain text over SMS.
Harder than it should be. Android could have just done a QR code.