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		twodayslate on May 11, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Shortwave: iBeacon-powered messaging I thought that used wifi/Bluetooth rather than iBeacons.

AmblingAvocado on May 11, 2014 [–]

iBeacons is bluetooth though (you interact with them via the core bluetooth framework)... FireChat does apparently also use wifi though since they use the multipeer connectivity API.

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