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Apple airdrop intermittent failure

Hi, attempting to send photos from an iphone to an ipad results in sporadic success with no obvious reproducible pattern. Failure takes the form of either a message, or no response, or invisible target device. What kind of technology is behind this? Some kind of asynchronous service? If this were windows etc i would expect to have to get my hands dirty with tech details, but this isn.t. It makes me wonder if apple isn.t just a load of sh*t now.
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David Anders

http://www.macworld.com/article/1161706/how_airdrop_makes_file_sharing_simple.html

http://www.macworld.com/video/28564/how-to-share-files-on-ios-7-using-airdrop.html

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I'm interested to know why the issue could be sporadic. If it doesn't work i can accept an error message, ideally with a code or some explanation, but a generic failure statement followed or preceeded by success on other attempts makes no sense. I'm puzzled more than annoyed.

xenium

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The wider answer maybe systems are becoming complex in the mathematical sense, but i.d like an idea on a specific cause here.

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I wasn.t aware a 3rd party wireless connection is required but this could have explained it as it was weak. Still it seems like a poor implementation, surely this could be diagnosed automatically and given appropriate treatment or warning.

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Thanks for your feedback, useful info.