They were quite popular before Bluetooth (Bluetooth file transfers are actually a different physical layer for the same protocol called OBEX) and quite ironically interoperable across phone and PDA manufacturers, as far as I remember.
It’s extremely sad that we’ve gone from being able to send a photo or business card across manufacturers to needing (incredibly clever!) contortions like this, on vastly more powerful hardware that can literally talk to satellites and run local LLMs.
They were quite popular before Bluetooth (Bluetooth file transfers are actually a different physical layer for the same protocol called OBEX) and quite ironically interoperable across phone and PDA manufacturers, as far as I remember.
It’s extremely sad that we’ve gone from being able to send a photo or business card across manufacturers to needing (incredibly clever!) contortions like this, on vastly more powerful hardware that can literally talk to satellites and run local LLMs.