this is a peeve of mine. we all have these incredibly connected mobile communicators. we all know how to copy and paste a link. if you want me to watch something, send me a link. im happy to review on my device but damn do i hate looking at anyone elses screen.
Microsoft tried this, IIRC, but the one thing that's technologically possible that I desperately need is the SciFi concept of "throwing" content to another device. Like in The Expanse, where you swipe in the direction of a device, and it sends that content to that other device. Swipe toward your friend, the file gets sent. Swipe towards a TV, the content comes up on the TV. Heck, I'd have swipe toward my speakers and play music.
What would we need? Phones already have compasses and GPS, so the vector information is there. We have UPnP, for announcing services; we have geo recording servers like OwnTracks; every smart phone has gesture capability. We'd need a couple standards: adding geo information to UPnP; choosing a fucking universal sharing protocol (instead of the current dozens of niche protocols); and a little UI enhancement. We could have this, but instead we have walled gardens and no broadly supported standards. It's infuriating.
Uh, oops, I meant to scroll within this app, but instead I've just sent porn to some girl on the bus
Oops, I meant to scroll up but instead I've sent our company's sales figures to our client sitting in this meeting
The technology exists, but you can’t share content like that because of “DRM”
But then you get to show him all your videos on your phone
Xor?
then why are you even getting married
If only there was another option... kinda like a gal pal that would do that weird thing with the wisk and the cattleprod, and didn't try to show you their monster truck videos on a broken Galaxy 4.
Ah well, that must not exist, guess that's that.
There's this nifty feature on phones now where you can send a link to the other person's phone. My wife and I text each other stuff from the internet all day long.
If you can’t handle my 20-minute Fat Electrician videos, you don’t deserve me watching your reality television shows with you.
You seem like a lot of fun
I bet you're fun at parties.
That's so funny, I forgot to laugh.
That's what screen projection is for
I have a strict no videos policy.
Then I hope you're okay with your partner sharing YouTubes with other people.
Youtube cheating? Maybe they can be poly-Youtube.
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