AirDropping stuff from a Pixel phone rules so much

A new way to AirDrop just dropped.

It’s pretty rare when a cool new gadget feature gets announced that you can try right away on your own devices. But that’s exactly what happened yesterday when, out of the blue, Google announced it had engineered a way to bring AirDrop interoperability to Pixel 10 phones – all without Apple’s involvement.

After the news dropped, an update started rolling out that enabled the feature, arriving first for the 10 Pro and 10 Pro XL, which I have on hand. And once I got past some initial snags, it became nothing but a joy just AirDropping shit left and right – to iPads, MacBooks, iPhones. It’s all working, and it’s beautiful.

Let’s hope we get …

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