Google links Android’s Quick Share to Apple’s AirDrop, without Cupertino’s help

Google has linked Android’s wireless peer-to-peer file sharing tool Quick Share to Apple’s equivalent AirDrop.

Both tools allow users to share files, but until now only natively within their respective ecosystems. Quick Share therefore allows Android users to swap files or share them with ChromeOS devices. Air Drop allows users of iPhones, iPads, and Macs to share files.

On Thursday, announced a way to share files between Quick Share and Air Drop.

It only works on Google’s own Pixel 10 smartphone for now and the search and ads giant has pitched it as a means of sharing “personal files and content” among family and friends and argued that “Being able to communicate and connect with friends and family should be easy regardless of the phone they use” because “Technology should bring people closer together, not create walls.”

Easy comms, however, is a known problem for both Quick ...