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why should protecting my belongings from thieves be illegal?
> You shouldn't go get back your belongings from a thief anyways.
you can also send the police to the thieves if you know where they are
seriously, there are like 10 stalkers worldwide but 2 billion thieves. most likely any stalking story was made up by thieves because they hate if people get their stuff back...
Can the time interval be changed by the user or is it hardcoded? What are the limits if they can be changed?
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> These devices should be outright illegal why should protecting my belongings from thieves be illegal? > You shouldn't go get back your belongings from a thief anyways. you can also send the police to the thieves if you know where they are seriously, there are like 10 stalkers worldwide but 2 billion thieves. most likely any stalking story was made up by thieves because they hate if people get their stuff back...
A concealed tracker doesn’t protect you at all. It only aids in recovery.
> you can also send the police to the thieves if you know where they are
No, you can’t. The police do not recover stolen property based on an AirTag ping. They won’t lift a finger.
Have you experimented with a setup (more complicated to package) where you have two AirTags and alternately power one at a time? Could that bypass apples detection whilst also broadcasting location?
Edit: at sufficiently small time durations to run under apples detection radar, but for long enough to be picked up as a location
I don’t know how Apple detects the tracking; this would easily be solved by them.
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> These devices should be outright illegal why should protecting my belongings from thieves be illegal? > You shouldn't go get back your belongings from a thief anyways. you can also send the police to the thieves if you know where they are seriously, there are like 10 stalkers worldwide but 2 billion thieves. most likely any stalking story was made up by thieves because they hate if people get their stuff back...
Making tracking devices illegal does not make it illegal to protect your belongings from thieves.
>there are like 10 stalkers worldwide
Given how many women I know who had issues with stalkers, all ten must live near me.
> Events outside our control, such as Apple updating the firmware in the future to prevent the device from working, will not qualify for a refund. I fully understand why you would want to do this, but as a consumer I would never buy this product with this clause.
A reasonable solution would be to get to buy the newer model half-off if this happens. Obviously the maker can’t just have his entire biz nuked with refunds if Apple happens to update firmware.
Nobody has a right to a successful business but when consumers can trust their purchases they are more likely to make additional purchases.
You have also developed a device that allows people to use AirTags for stalking.
As it's 4 hours off / 1 hour on, the device is not very suitable for stalking someone. Also once the AirTag is back on and the person starts moving, they will be alerted that the AirTag is tracking them.
Not trying to be creepy, I’m just trying to demonstrate how we all need to think like adversaries (eg creeps) when designing products.
> Events outside our control, such as Apple updating the firmware in the future to prevent the device from working, will not qualify for a refund. I fully understand why you would want to do this, but as a consumer I would never buy this product with this clause.