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		Hamuko on Sept 15, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: iPhone 14 Pro Camera Review: Scotland Lightning is limited to 53 MB/s by the sheer virtue of being USB 2.0, and probably is even slower in real life, so AirDrop would be at maximum 0.5 MB/s?

ulfw on Sept 15, 2022 | [–]

Of course it's not.

https://www.shaunpoore.com/why-is-airdrop-fast/

hbn on Sept 20, 2022 | [–]

I think they were saying it's 100x slower than if Apple just used modern over-wire transfer methods.

I'm also thinking the "100x" was not a genuine mathematical assertion

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