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this is the smallest attachment loop i've found. It's rock solid https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09CPTS8JG?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_...
Dude... not cool to put your Amazon `ref` link in there....
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Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability
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Re: Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability
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Apple of late is a mystery. Their software and hardware product quality is wildly inconsistent and, yet, with the most simplest of hardware like AirTags and AirPods, they're like magic. iPhones, I could hardly care less about. These new airtags? Insta buy!
I can see it in AirTags, but, haven't used AirPods myself, what is so "magical" about them? Also, my understanding is that AirTags are only usable if you have an iPhone, am I wrong?
AirPods are great! You can use them with an Android, and it will let you know there's AirPods travelling with you every time!
Re: Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability
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Different people want different attachment types (or no attachment point at all), so it makes sense for that to be external. I've used other trackers with integrated attachment points, and because the attachment point has to be very compact it tends to be flimsy or hard to fit.. vs the Apple one where you can add a larger attachment point that makes sense to you.
Are you trying to say that the AirTag is so strictly utilitarian, that they couldn’t have found a spot for a lanyard hole? I disagree, they could have, they didn’t want to. Beyond the look, this sure panders to their accessory partners. How big of an industry is the phone case? Should it even exist? The audacity.
Right? Nokias had the equivalent of today's "case" built right into the design of the unit, plenty of durable plastic around the vulnerable parts -- the phone would've been considered unfit for sale if it couldn't survive a drop in out-of-the-box condition.
By the time you stripped a dumbphone down to be as vulnerable as one of today's is, it'd be a bare PCB. Nah, probably even in that state, I bet it could handle a drop better than a new iPhone straight out of the box.
What you buy today isn't a complete phone, it's just the guts. One tumble to pavement and you're out a grand. Heaven help you if you fumble it while trying to install the case that should've been part of it from the beginning.
And yet, we still buy them, because the alternatives are from shady manufacturers who never provide updates, and there is no third-party hardware that can run up-to-date iOS. If there was, I'd buy an iNokia in a heartbeat.
Re: Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability
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Russia does pretty widespread GPS jamming and spoofing both in their country as well as across the Baltics and Nordics (and others). If a phone is receiving bad GPS data when it reports sensing the tag, the tag location will reflect that bad GPS data and not reality.
Shouldn't most comodity GPS receivers also be GLONASS compatible (I get that Galileo is more niche and might not be included). Does the Sensor Apple uses not use GLONASS in Russia? Or is it cheapo Android Phones picking up the tag and then sending GPS coords into cloud? edit: Nvm, I might be dumb, I guess unless your jamming includes all commodity GNSS it's pretty useless.
They have had GLONASS for ages too, but obviously they have to jam everything, otherwise it's not going to prevent drones and such from working
Re: Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability
#135Great to hear but it's still the same shape. I really want a 'credit card' shaped version I can slide into my wallet.
I haven't stress tested it but I have a Spotfinder in my small wallet.
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Just stating the obvious that not buying one of these things that we never seemed to need until they told us we needed it is the only way to have "the environment in mind".
Just stating the obvious that not buying one of these thing that we never seemed to need until they told us we needed it I never thought I needed one until my wife lost her car keys, and the Fiat dealer charged $1,200 for a replacement. And it's not even the electronics that makes them so expensive. Modern car keys aren't like the 1970's where it's just a piece of metal with the edges shaved off. Those little key cut…
I have cats. I can’t count on things being where I left them.
Re: Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability
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Sounds like one of those "what if..." things someone made up. AirTags are terrible for surreptitious tracking, alerting every iOS user nearby of a tracked product following them around. I mean, years ago people, such as stalkers, would use it for this purpose, but Apple rightly gimped that. There are a lot of specialized, self-connected trackers that creeps and criminals use.
Well, to be historically accurate: Apple has pretty much been forced by the backlash to notify people that they're being tracked and even then it only worked if you had an iPhone. They knew what they were doing and I'm sure the stalking aspect helped their sales significantly as it seems to be a very popular behaviour in the US.
> the stalking aspect helped their sales significantly
while not denying people have done this, I do have problems thinking that it was a significant portion of the sales numbers. exaggerating problems is not necessary and actually reduces the credibility of the people doing the exaggerating
Re: Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability
#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
this is the smallest attachment loop i've found. It's rock solid https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09CPTS8JG?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_...
Dude... not cool to put your Amazon `ref` link in there....
It's not theirs, internal Amazon stuff. Also, plug for Firefox and the Copy Clean Link function.
Re: Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability
#139> Designed exclusively for tracking objects, and not people or pets, the new AirTag incorporates… Interesting to call out that it’s not designed for pets. I know several people with AirTags on their pet collars.
Legal reason, perhaps?
Apple doesn't, maybe, want to explain why these are for tracking the living?
Re: Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability
#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple of late is a mystery. Their software and hardware product quality is wildly inconsistent and, yet, with the most simplest of hardware like AirTags and AirPods, they're like magic. iPhones, I could hardly care less about. These new airtags? Insta buy!
I've started to dislike the narrative that "Apple never leads the pack, but it waits to release the best product." But that hasn't been true for a decade. Most improvements have been marginal, and they totally missed the boat on LLMs.
Why should Apple care about LLMs? They missed the boat on cloud, cryptocurrencies and on search engines. So what? It's not their business - they can just license a good offering and move on to what they do best : Products.