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Surely you can see how that would be a poor design choice. It's quite a common use case for tracking devices like the AirTag.
You can use a fork as a spoon but you don't get to complain about how bad it performs. Nowhere in Apple's marketing is the airtag advertised as a device to track stolen things
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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.
Planning the same for my cat who goes out a lot: is there a special collar that has a place for AirTag or what is your setup?
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It's certainly possible to build and even buy a very robust umbrella. I suspect the reason most people don't is that they know they're going to be lost or stolen.* It's why Amsterdam bicyclists don't ride $5000 bikes. *Especially in Tokyo. If you drop a wallet full of cash on the street in Tokyo, someone will chase you down to return it. But if you turn your back on your umbrella in Tokyo, kiss it goodbye. Then you h…
I have a confession. A first time visitor from a small European town to a Japanese city last millennium, it was raining and a department store had buckets with mostly white or transparent umbrellas by the door. How civilized, I thought, that a company would provide free umbrellas to shoppers when it rains, and so I took one. Turns out that's where you out your umbrella when entering the store...
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 sure have a lot of strong opinions on what apple "should" do.
Don't like it? It's a free market. Don't buy it and if you're afraid of being stalked, check out the app they released.
I wonder how come all you people come out of the woodwork now that Apple released this thing, yet when Tile did there was no such forced concerned anywhere.
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You can opt out of participating in this spy network, and probably should Settings -> (tap your apple id card at the top) -> Find My -> Find my iPhone -> turn off “Find My Network”
That doesn't change a thing. 99,99% of iPhone users won't do this.
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I said knife bans happened because there are knife attacks. Guns are already banned and there weren't many with civilians already so it was effective. So that leaves knives as the main weapon of choice. There are mainly knife attacks, so there are knife bans.
You said, "They have knife bans because they never let their citizens have guns, so there are knife attacks, so they ban knives" Texas has numerous bans on knives, despite letting their citizens have guns. Your causal logic is incorrect.
It's not, I'm sorry you can't follow the simple logic that people pick up a knife because they don't have a readily available gun, so there are more knife attacks than anything else, so they ban knives more aggressively.
> Texas has numerous bans on knives,
Texas does have bans on specific types of knives, but not a blanket ban or anything w/ length.
It's like saying because full autos are banned Texas has a gun ban.
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The Brits don't have a 2A. We have it because of the Brits. Life isn't that strange if you follow it back. They have knife bans because they never let their citizens have guns, so there are knife attacks, so they ban knives. That's why terrorists when they can't sneak AK47s in, rely on vans to run people over, that's why there are bollards everywhere. Chemical attacks, axes and such can also be used to kill or harm p…
I agree with you, but note that NYC (a frequent point of comparison with London, despite stats incompatibilities) has more knife murders than London, ie their second biggest category is bigger than our first category of murders by weapon. https://www.euronews.com/2019/06/18/deadly-knife-crime-how-d...
New York is a shithole and terribly ran, of course the murder rate is higher, especially these days.
There's a lot of gang violence and pickpocketing, knives are the goto choice, especially since it's so hard to get a hand gun legally in that city. Better to carry a knife otherwise you're a default felon.
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Consider theft. Now the thieves have the victims phone number to attempt to further steal from them. Or if there is an audible sound, they know the police is coming after them and can drop the airtag and avoid apprehension. This is a two edge blade. Personally, if I was going to use an airtag I would use it to protect myself in case of theft. Now, the thieves can locate the airtag due to a notification and move it to…
Right, or even consider the original case where you have an AirTag on your keys for if you lose them - given a name and a phone number, someone who finds your keys can quite possibly figure out where you live and use the keys. Most things you lose are both less dangerous lost and worth less to a criminal (and hence less likely to induce someone to become a criminal) if they can't be tied back to you. Don't put "If fo…
My goal would be to provide enough information so that, if the AirTag's owner is someone the victim knows, they'll be able to determine who it is. Apple needn't provide enough information to identify random strangers, because most stalkers aren't random strangers. (And, the AirTag is appealing due to its ease of use; it would be easier and cheaper to buy a GPS tracker than set up a burner iPhone.)
It may not be possible to do this in a completely harmless way to the AirTag owner, but I do think potential victims should get more priority here. Telling everyone to file a police report isn't great IMO, because potential victims may have all sorts of reasons for not wanting the police involved.
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…
Aaahh, that is why Apple’s app refuses to help me find my cat in dark apartment at night! It just says “It is too dark” and provides a button to turn on flashlight.
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…
Another fringe use case no one has mentioned: Finding a detached ski in titty-deep backcountry powder. AirTags can be literally life saving.