AirDrop between Mac earlier than 2012 and iOS.. I can't believe it..

Yes, I know:
"In order to transfer files between a Mac and an iPhone, IPad or iPod touch, your iOS device needs iOS7 or later installed and your Mac needs to be a 2012 or later model."
Is a MacBook Pro late 2011 really so obsolete?
No solutions?
I think it's embarrassing..

serjiothings wrote:
Yes, I know:
"In order to transfer files between a Mac and an iPhone, IPad or iPod touch, your iOS device needs iOS7 or later installed and your Mac needs to be a 2012 or later model."
Is a MacBook Pro late 2011 really so obsolete?
No solutions?
I think it's embarrassing..
It’s not obsolete, but they couldn’t install a piece of hardware in a 2011 Mac that was first available in that same year. Airdrop between iOS and OS X requires Bluetooth 4.0. With about a year lead time on production, the module wasn’t available for your Mac.
Google around and you might find a way to hack your Mac to make it work, if it matters that much.

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Found this information in discussion with Apple Advisors (and wasted a lot of time doing so) only to find a clear disconnect between KB articles.The current basic article clearly states that any Mac newer than 2012 can use AirDrop:
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Perhaps that should be (amended to) read, "... current production model Mac needs to be..." Simply saying that the MacPro line ended. Or simply delete the article in favor of the correct one? In either case though, it seems a bad idea that a computer which can run the latest OS cannot use all of the features of the latest OS, including the features that are described as being available a wide range of models of Mac machines in current production. (insert Sad Apple face here).
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AirDrop
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I got my answer:
"In order to transfer files between a Mac and and an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, your iOS device needs iOS 7 or later installed and your Mac needs to be a 2012 or later model. To transfer files between two Mac computers, you need one of the Mac models listed below and OS X Lion or later."
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