Title: Imagine these scenarios:<p>* You sit in some pub with a few friends. You show them a video you filmed yesterday on your phone. You&#x27;re speakers are really bad, and you want to send it to a friend who has better speakers.<p>--&gt; You try to send the video over What&#x27;s App. You discover you have no cell reception. You give up.<p>* You are at a conference, about to give a talk. For some reason, your MacBook won&#x27;t work with the projector. You want to copy the presentation to some other laptop. The WiFi is overloaded.<p>--&gt; You spend 5 minutes finding someone who still carries a USB stick and transfer the files.<p>* You are in an airplane, and you have a bunch of company documents stored on your laptop, which you want to read on your tablet. You forgot your micro USB cable.<p>--&gt; You are angry at yourself for not installing a file sharing app and for forgetting to send yourself the documents with GMail and downloading them on the tablet.<p>Everytime I run into one of those situations, I just get angry that there is no easy solution, and most of the time we have to resort to some clutch, like relying on a centralized service like email or messenger apps.<p>How do we still have this problem in 2016, where we all carry multiple supposedly inter-connected and interoperable devices?<p>There is an endless amount of file sharing apps for iOS and Android. There are countless protocols and options for discovering devices and sharing files  (including &quot;ancient&quot; options like Samba, NFS and FTP).<p>Why is there no universally accepted standard that facilitates device discovery and file sharing between devices over WiFi AND Bluetooth, with implementations installed by default on every device?<p>Am I alone in seeing a need here?
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