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Re: Multipeer Connectivity Questions
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Re: Multipeer Connectivity Questions


  • Subject: Re: Multipeer Connectivity Questions
  • From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 09:42:19 -0800


On Nov 19, 2013, at 9:32 AM, Quinn The Eskimo! <email@hidden> wrote:

Do any Macs support it?

The Multipeer Connectivity on-the-wire protocol is not documented, so the absence of an OS X API means the answer is necessarily no.

I meant, do Macs support the ad-hoc WiFi mode that doesn’t require a base station?
And does Bonjour use this mode, so two Macs (or a Mac and an iOS device) publishing/browsing the same service can discover each other?

I won’t ask “will Mac OS support MPC” or “should I file a Radar asking for that” because I know the answers are “no comment” and “sure”. But how about “will Apple open-source the MPC protocol?” Closed network protocols are so 20th-century. And I’m unlikely to use MPC unless it gets some cross-platform support, at least to Mac OS.

—Jens
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