Pixel 10 and iPhone Finally Admit They Can Talk Without Drama

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•Google introduced an update on Thursday 2024 enabling Pixel 10 and iPhone users to transfer files directly via Quick Share and AirDrop.
•This interoperability requires Apple devices to be set as discoverable by everyone to appear to Pixel owners for sharing requests.
•Google emphasized the feature is peer-to-peer with no data logging or rerouting through servers, focusing on user privacy.
•Apple declined to comment immediately on this new cross-platform feature introduced following its 2024 adoption of RCS messaging.

In a stunning act of tech détente worthy of late-night therapy, Google’s latest update now allows AirDrop and its Pixel 10 exclusive feature Quick Share to play nice, starting Thursday 2024. That’s right, Apple and Pixel 10 owners can now share files directly without resorting to carrier pigeons or suspiciously blinking Morse code. Ironically, this requires iPhones to greet strangers by setting their devices 'discoverable by everyone'—because privacy is obviously overrated. Google promises no mysterious middlemen will log your secrets, yet Apple stayed eerily silent, likely perfecting its next passive-aggressive innovation. Meanwhile, the green bubble stigma remains the only thing fixed with iMessage and RCS. Bravo, humanity.

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After years of tech sibling rivalry, Pixel 10 and iPhone finally unlock a peace treaty by sharing files. It only took them discovering how to say 'hello' without drama.

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AirDrop and Quick Share are dating now. The catch: iPhones have to gossip out loud by being 'discoverable by everyone'. Privacy enthusiasts turn off phone.

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