His infamous search your home video comes to mind as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk2Wc4Y5CxE
NYPD urges citizens to buy AirTags to fight surge in car thefts
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#22I wish more hardware products supported the "embedded airtag" feature enabled by the Apple Find My program that enables 3rd party manufactures to effectively embed airtags into their products. https://mfi.apple.com
Do any hardware products support it at all?
Re: NYPD urges citizens to buy AirTags to fight surge in car thefts
#23From TFA Mayor Adams was asked during the press conference if AirTags work with Android (they don't). "Why would anyone have one [an Android phone]?" Mayor Adams responded. Oh and given that this in New York we're talking about here, the vigilante mob are gonna go wild for this, especially after Citizen worked out so well .... But by last month, Frame was enthusiastically backing the idea of manhunts, according to sc…
> Why would anyone have one [an Android phone]?" Mayor Adams responded
This is a New Yorker’s response to a stupid question.
AirTags have a recognised brand. Messaging “buy AirTags” comes through cleanly in a way an inclusive statement would not. Given nobody is burning city funds for this, it’s literally a PSA, a reporter asking the mayor technical questions the answer to which they know is fine to be answered dismissively.
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#25i am unsure how AirTags can be recommended by anyone in any situation to prevent theft. their "anti-tracking" features make them completely useless in any situation where theft is involved (or theft happens after loosing the item). the thief is alerted to their presence automatically and can disable them quickly. perfect for thieves! AirTags can only be used for misplaced items, any utility for situations involving t…
I have a 'family' setup in our iphones for my wife and kids. My wife bought some airtags and put them in the cases for our kids expensive musical instruments, her keys, etc.
We are configured as a family to share apps, set screen times, etc, but I can't see where those tags are, only my wife can on her phone. Worse, I get warnings every time I use her car for the day, that it found an uknown airtag riding with me. Or when she rides with me in the passenger seat of my vehicle, and has her purse with her.
They are essentially less than worthless, and cause a ton of false alerts, so 3/4ths of our family have them blocked and ignore any airtag alert, because we assume its one of hers.
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#26i am unsure how AirTags can be recommended by anyone in any situation to prevent theft. their "anti-tracking" features make them completely useless in any situation where theft is involved (or theft happens after loosing the item). the thief is alerted to their presence automatically and can disable them quickly. perfect for thieves! AirTags can only be used for misplaced items, any utility for situations involving t…
What if the thieves don't have an iPhone?
Re: NYPD urges citizens to buy AirTags to fight surge in car thefts
#27I wish more hardware products supported the "embedded airtag" feature enabled by the Apple Find My program that enables 3rd party manufactures to effectively embed airtags into their products. https://mfi.apple.com
I wish Apple supported that in their Airpod case.
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#28How is car theft in 2023 still a problem? What happens to a stolen car? It doesn't seem feasible or realistic to try to sell it for parts (where are you going to store all these cars before/after parting them out), and there's no way you can just sell the car and expect it not to get flagged. WTF is going on?
Re: NYPD urges citizens to buy AirTags to fight surge in car thefts
#29Remember Lojack?
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#30This article throws up many flags for me, not necessarily red, but of a worrying color. It first celebrates surveillance devices as a net positive and hand-waves away its problems. But most importantly, it is awfully shortsighted to allow a single company to entrench itself further into societal transactions. However, hearing it is inconvenient, so I am often dismissed for saying so. > They're made by Apple, which me…
I assume it was mostly humor, albeit poorly timed humor.
The lack of elaboration to the question shows that there wasn't much thought put into this idea IMO. While a majority of Americans use iPhones, there is still a significant portion of Android users. It's unfortunate that an interoperable solution was not promoted, but I assume this suggestion attempts catering to the majority and puts little thought into what we are all concerned with -- interoperability and being able to target everybody, not just ~60% of the U.S. population (if you want to believe statcounter's numbers).