I used Apple AirTags, Tiles and a GPS tracker to watch my husband’s every move
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Re: I used Apple AirTags, Tiles and a GPS tracker to watch my husband’s every move
#2Re: I used Apple AirTags, Tiles and a GPS tracker to watch my husband’s every move
#3Look, I usually try to be charitable. However, this article offered no new insight on Apple Airtags.
If you don't want to waste your time, allow me to summarize:
Woman puts Airtags in a car. Her husband isn't able to find them, even using Apple's "anti-stalk" features. Ergo, Apple needs to do more.
I ask - what new insight did this article offer on Airtags? I don't think anyone can conclude either way on the effectiveness of Apple's "safety measures" when it comes to Airtags, from this small anecdote.
In my mind, the article buries the Lede on the real discussion - should Apple be doing these measures at all? I find that issue far from settled when this article takes it for granted that not only should Apple take these safety measures, they should do more!
The author also seems to be somewhat deceptive - "I sound like a terrible wife, but it's for journalism!" No, it seems like the author played a prank on her husband a while back and used that to neuroticaly follow him, then tried to excuse that behavior by writing this fluff piece.
Anyways, I do think there is interesting discussion to be had about Airtags and if/what Apple should be doing to prevent unwanted tracking. However, this article didn't have that discussion or contribute to it in a meaningful way.
Re: I used Apple AirTags, Tiles and a GPS tracker to watch my husband’s every move
#4Look, I usually try to be charitable. However, this article offered no new insight on Apple Airtags. If you don't want to waste your time, allow me to summarize: Woman puts Airtags in a car. Her husband isn't able to find them, even using Apple's "anti-stalk" features. Ergo, Apple needs to do more. I ask - what new insight did this article offer on Airtags? I don't think anyone can conclude either way on the effectiv…
I found the key quote to be
"My husband, of course, had agreed to this in principle, but didn’t realize just how many devices I had planted on him. Of the seven trackers, he found only two: a Tile he felt in the breast pocket of his coat and an AirTag in his backpack when he was looking for something else. “It is impossible to find a device that makes no noise and gives no warning,” he said, when I showed him the ones he missed."
which I read as "Apple needs to improve, but still drastically better than everything else out there"
I am not in the market for AirTags, but if you are completely scatterbrained and this provides you a helpful way to manage your stuff, AirTags seem to be least bad way of doing this.
Re: I used Apple AirTags, Tiles and a GPS tracker to watch my husband’s every move
#5Look, I usually try to be charitable. However, this article offered no new insight on Apple Airtags. If you don't want to waste your time, allow me to summarize: Woman puts Airtags in a car. Her husband isn't able to find them, even using Apple's "anti-stalk" features. Ergo, Apple needs to do more. I ask - what new insight did this article offer on Airtags? I don't think anyone can conclude either way on the effectiv…
The fact that she was to tired to take a baby to the hospital, but not to follow husband every step is what concerns me.
Re: I used Apple AirTags, Tiles and a GPS tracker to watch my husband’s every move
#6The only clear conclusion to be drawn from this is - never marry the author of this piece!
Re: I used Apple AirTags, Tiles and a GPS tracker to watch my husband’s every move
#7Look, I usually try to be charitable. However, this article offered no new insight on Apple Airtags. If you don't want to waste your time, allow me to summarize: Woman puts Airtags in a car. Her husband isn't able to find them, even using Apple's "anti-stalk" features. Ergo, Apple needs to do more. I ask - what new insight did this article offer on Airtags? I don't think anyone can conclude either way on the effectiv…
Not everything has to offer new info. Sometimes things bear repeating, it's how we add emphasis and continue the conversation.
Coming out with "Apple is doing a poor job" just once isn't going to move the needle. People have to hear it over and over in a relatable way.
Re: I used Apple AirTags, Tiles and a GPS tracker to watch my husband’s every move
#8The only clear conclusion to be drawn from this is - never marry the author of this piece!
Next week, an article written by the husband on how to get a patio really flat in your garden.
Re: I used Apple AirTags, Tiles and a GPS tracker to watch my husband’s every move
#9Look, I usually try to be charitable. However, this article offered no new insight on Apple Airtags. If you don't want to waste your time, allow me to summarize: Woman puts Airtags in a car. Her husband isn't able to find them, even using Apple's "anti-stalk" features. Ergo, Apple needs to do more. I ask - what new insight did this article offer on Airtags? I don't think anyone can conclude either way on the effectiv…
The fact that she was to tired to take a baby to the hospital, but not to follow husband every step is what concerns me.
I do try to be charitable, but it almost seemed like a sick game to me.
"Here, let me convince my husband that he needs to go take the baby to the hospital. Now, let's stalk him to see if he actually did it!"
Anyways, this turned me off. It could have been "forgiven" (if this word even applies) had it contributed something meaningful. Sadly, it didn't, so it just comes off as neurotic stalking.
Re: I used Apple AirTags, Tiles and a GPS tracker to watch my husband’s every move
#10Look, I usually try to be charitable. However, this article offered no new insight on Apple Airtags. If you don't want to waste your time, allow me to summarize: Woman puts Airtags in a car. Her husband isn't able to find them, even using Apple's "anti-stalk" features. Ergo, Apple needs to do more. I ask - what new insight did this article offer on Airtags? I don't think anyone can conclude either way on the effectiv…
The fact that she was to tired to take a baby to the hospital, but not to follow husband every step is what concerns me.
I'm sorry, but what? The ostensible benefits of AirTags is that they're extremely easy to use and track with an iPhone. Why is it concerning that the author feels too tired to go to the hospital (during covid-heightened restrictions), but not too tired to use her iphone? Is going to the hospital for pediatric care generally easy? Is actively calling her husband easier than passive notification via the Find My app?
> “I’m worried,” I told my husband. “I want you to take her to the hospital.”
> “Doctors always tell us to take the baby to the E.R. whenever we call about anything,” he replied, exasperated. (This was true.) “She is fine. She is eating and playing and happy. This is not an emergency.”
> He eventually caved and set out for the hospital a half-hour away. Knowing he was already annoyed by me, I did not want to pepper him with questions about how it was going.
> Instead, I turned to the location-monitoring devices that I had secretly stashed in our car a week earlier.