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If only this also could be compatible with the Apple AirDrop, so we Linux users can receive files from Apple devices or send files from non-Apple to Apple without having to install something on the Apple device.
Apple will never support other devices with any of their technology. It's against their ethos on a fundamental level, since their inception.
And the other way around is impossible too? Is it impossible for 3rd party implementations to support the closed AirDrop protocol (through some sort of "hack", I don't know)?
Possibly but Apple would just "patch" it.
It's already been done: https://github.com/seemoo-lab/opendrop
There are two problems: