"Every AirTag has a unique serial number, and paired AirTags are associated with an Apple ID. Apple can provide the paired account details in response to a subpoena or valid request from law enforcement." For a company that 'values privacy', how do they think it's acceptable to only advertise this information now?
If only there was a way to figure out what the website address is, maybe they indeed would have "advertised this information" ...
Android users are still vulnerable, and these announcements do nothing to reduce that. All a stalker needs to do, is remove the speaker. To detect a rogue AirTag, an Android owner needs to: 1) know AirTags exist (many obviously don't) 2) go out of their way to install Apple's Android AirTag scanner app (only 100k-500k worldwide have done so according to Google Play stats) 3) manually open the scanner app and scan, si…
You can post anonymously on a forum against them. I sent them an email thanking them for making them. In the end, I buy their stuff and you guys don’t. They know that.
This is a great response - very happy to hear Apple's involvement with various groups to make things better. Some noteworthy bits: > we innovated with the first-ever proactive system to alert you of unwanted tracking If that's true, then Apple just raised the privacy bar and now Tile and other small players need to up their game to stay relevant. There is also lesson to learn here: whoever makes a tech/product popula…
>> we innovated with the first-ever proactive system to alert you of unwanted tracking > If that's true, then Apple just raised the privacy bar Except that's only true for Apple users. Fuck everyone else I guess. subtext: buy Apple, lest you get robbed or stalked because of Apple
I mean Android only has a market share 70%, practically nobody uses it anyways /s
The fact that there were open source unwanted AirTag finder Apps on the PlayStore way before Apples official app arrived perfectly demonstrates how much Apple really cares about privacy. They only „care“ about the privacy of the people who pay them to care.
Android users are still vulnerable, and these announcements do nothing to reduce that. All a stalker needs to do, is remove the speaker. To detect a rogue AirTag, an Android owner needs to: 1) know AirTags exist (many obviously don't) 2) go out of their way to install Apple's Android AirTag scanner app (only 100k-500k worldwide have done so according to Google Play stats) 3) manually open the scanner app and scan, si…
For me, 95% of the functionality of Airtags would still be there if it only worked with your own apple devices. I have found airtags for finding things when I lose my keys/wallet around the house. I do leave them at a restaurant tying it to my iPhone would still show the last place I had it.
Years ago, I had a tile on my keys. I left them on top of my car in a parking garage. When I went back, they were gone. Someone took them, probably meaning well but didn’t leave a note saying where they took them to. So that sucked. To this day, despite the tile being in “lost mode”, I’ve never gotten a ping. There’s real value in these trackers, because people pick up things that aren’t theirs.
AirTags last only one year and you can't replace the battery or recharge it? Is that right what I'm reading? I gave up on Tile for that reason about 3 years ago, although they may have added a replaceable / rechargable one.
The Tiles were useful while they kept charge. Apple has a lot larger participant network as well than the tile network.
I must say, as an adult in the habit of carrying a lockback folding knife whenever I leave the house, a practice I ultimately owe to Lord Baden-Powell, I found it.. discomfiting that this benign practice is illegal in London. Lovely city in general, one of my very favourites, but there's something grim about that. "Be Prepared" was considered a perfectly valid reason at one time. Still is in hmm. Many places.
Not disagreeing with you per se, but what is benign in some contexts might not be so benign in others. Knife crime is a big problem in London - the tight regulation is in response to these circumstances. For instance, of the 126 homicides committed in London in 2020, 71 were committed with knives.[1] [1] https://www.onlondon.co.uk/the-number-of-homicides-in-london...
It’s a bit funny to imagine but the NYC knife murder rate is actually higher than London. Against the background of substantially greater crime, though, it fades away.
It’s just a difference in culture. Despite the stabbings, Americans will not tolerate knife control to the same degree.
Android users are still vulnerable, and these announcements do nothing to reduce that. All a stalker needs to do, is remove the speaker. To detect a rogue AirTag, an Android owner needs to: 1) know AirTags exist (many obviously don't) 2) go out of their way to install Apple's Android AirTag scanner app (only 100k-500k worldwide have done so according to Google Play stats) 3) manually open the scanner app and scan, si…
> That leaves "finding your keys within your home" as the only truly "officially supported" use case. That is hardly true. Case in point - my wife put down her keys at a store and managed to leave without noticing (this was early after AirTags hit the market). I was driving and we left without recognizing that a few hundred dollars of keys had been lost. Later that day, we noticed. She called a few stores all said th…
The notion of an umbrella lasting 20 years boggles my mind. I've never had one last more than 2–3 years and I don't use them much. I've looked for premium umbrellas before but every time I find one that isn't ridiculously priced, there's always a contingent of reviewers who insist that it fell apart in heavy wind or frequent use. Normally I buy $10 umbrellas from Australia's big hardware store chain. They aren't grea…
> I'd be willing to pay $120 AUD (or $80 USD) for an umbrella that was seriously good quality https://au.davekny.com/ has good stuff although I haven't had one long enough (only 5 years) to attest its durability. They also have some promising guarantee terms: https://au.davekny.com/pages/lifetime-guarantee
Approximately twice what I was hoping to pay, but damn those are some wild guarantees.
Android users are still vulnerable, and these announcements do nothing to reduce that. All a stalker needs to do, is remove the speaker. To detect a rogue AirTag, an Android owner needs to: 1) know AirTags exist (many obviously don't) 2) go out of their way to install Apple's Android AirTag scanner app (only 100k-500k worldwide have done so according to Google Play stats) 3) manually open the scanner app and scan, si…
My cat gets out often, and an AirTag allowed us to find her several times over the past year; sometimes notifying us before we even realized it.
> Maybe you don't lose stuff as much as other people? I relate to it and respect it, but it's doubtful anyone would switch to iPhone because of AirTags. Samsung and others also make trackers, and you don't need the Find My network if you lost your keys inside your house, any tracker will do. > Not only are air tags useful, but I'm sure that there are people who would be willing to switch to iOS surely to get access t…
My mom likes her iPhone for other reasons but she loves her air tags. She can find her keys in her house, her purse at a party, and her car in a parking lot. She's never leaving the apple ecosystem now.