HT4783: Using AirDrop with OS X Lion, Mountain Lion or Mavericks
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Q: AirDrop on my Mavericks mini, AirDrop on my iOS 7.0.4 iPhone 5S - the same but different?
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Feb 20, 2014 1:19 PMby Eric Root,Macs can only Airdrop to Macs and the same for IOS devices.
Notice first line under the title.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5887?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
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Feb 20, 2014 1:36 PMby jetlag11,This doesn't help. Of course I read the second line. I re-read and re-read it and other AirDrop bulletins. Notice the top line - the same seven letters as on the Mavericks feature list. Human Interface Guidelines certainly say that the same name should be pretty much the same whereever. If there is a chance for confusion, then the names should be different. That's one reason why Apple has an iOS and an OS X, even as they evolve towards each other.
Apple should make it clearer that AirDrop and AirDrop aren't the same.
(Note the problems that users of the current version of the other computer operating system have. They think that because the name is the same, their OS works the same and is the same across all devices. It doesn't because it isn't.)
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Feb 20, 2014 1:41 PMby sberman,Eric is correct. There was never any ambiguity. This has been stated in all Apple's announcements. Even the HT4783 article you attached above says "AirDrop provides a way to share files wirelessly between two Macs ..." on its second line.
AirDrop and AirDrop are conceptually the same. Simillarly, your Mac might be called a computer, and so might an iPad. An iPhone is a telephone, and so is a land line phone.
