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Actually it's the opposite - Airdrop is controlled by the vendor lock-in company that wants you to only buy its hardware.

> by the online services company that wants you to use online services

Do you mean the one that went to all the trouble to reverse engineer Airdrop so that people could access Apple's vendor-locked walled garden without the use of online services?

Bluetooth is a thing too and I think it is even faster than this qr code video transfer method. Of course still slower than Airdrop.

LocalSend has been working great for me across different types of devices.