Google Spends Years Copying AirDrop Just To Copy More AirDrop
KEY POINTS
- •Google started AirDrop support on Pixel 10 devices in 2024, signaling a new era for Android data sharing.
- •Eric Kay, Android VP of engineering, confirmed in a briefing with Android Authority that Quick Share will expand to all Android partners.
- •Google’s goal is to ensure compatibility not just with iPhones, but with iPads and MacBooks as well this year.
After warmly embracing Apple’s famous AirDrop by introducing it to Pixel 10 phones last year, Google is now heroically centralizing the spirit of cross-platform friendship by expanding Quick Share to all sorts of Android devices. Eric Kay, Google's Android VP of engineering, graced a press briefing with Android Authority to confess they put 'a lot of time and energy' into syncing up with iPhones, iPads, and MacBooks — because apparently, anything less than a full Apple family reunion just won’t cut it. The grand plan for 2025? Let every Android try to join Apple's exclusive data-sharing party: slowly but surely, and probably with a lot of polite elbow-nudging.
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Google spent years engineering Android phones to join Apple’s data party, proving copy-paste is the sincerest form of flattery.
Android users can now pretend they’re special by borrowing Apple’s AirDrop, because originality is highly overrated.
Google engineers out here hopping onto Apple’s AirDrop like it’s the last chair in musical data chairs.
Source: Theverge | Published: 2/6/2026 | Author: Jess Weatherbed
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