The kind of work I do involves constant file sharing, and with iPhones, Android phones, and a MacBook all part of my daily rotation, moving files between them used to be far more exhausting than it should have been. Something as simple as getting a photo or video from an Android phone onto my MacBook often turned into a mini process of its own. Most of the time, I had to upload files to Google Drive , wait for them to sync properly, and then download them again on the other device. It sounds manageable when you describe it once, but when you repeat that cycle several times a day, it starts feeling like a tax you pay with your time and patience. This was mostly the result of ecosystems spending years building walls around themselves. Apple’s walls were obviously the tallest, but Android had its own barriers too. For the longest time, it felt like nobody was particularly interested in making these devices cooperate gracefully. But somewhere along the way, that started changing.…