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I can't tell if I'm just too old and infirmed to understand the information needs of the younger generations. But between nearby share, wifi direct, and bluetooth transfer... I have no idea what function I am missing out on. What does airdrop do that makes life so tedious in the absence of?
Airdrop is a little bit less friction than all of the other technologies you mention, but the real problem is that Apple has declined to implement any of the technologies you mentioned, and decided to only support Airdrop for transferring files between devices.
So it you want to transfer a file from iPhone to iPhone, than Airdrop is easy and frictionless.
If you want to transfer a file from Android to Android, then you have all the options you mention and many more to choose from.
But if you want to transfer a file from iPhone to Android (or Android to iPhone), then there basically isn't any options. Airdrop doesn't work on Android because Apple doesn't allow it. And all the options you mentioned doesn't work be cause Apple has refused to implement them.
LocalSend works on them all, its open source and is completely frictionless.
https://localsend.org/
You are correct, and I use it myself, right up until you aren't on the same local network...
I actually haven't tested whether it works if you make a mobile hotspot... But being out in a bar that doesn't offer WiFi, would then require you to first set up a mobile hotspot, get the other person to connect, then download localsend before you can actually transfer the file. And even if the bar offered WiFi, you would kinda hope that the bar has enabled client isolation on the network to avoid spreading malware... But that would in turn defeat Localsend.
With Airdrop you don't need any of that, given that both people have iDevices