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Somebody take an x-ray so where know where to drill our own holes.
Already been done https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/05/02/x-rays-show-how-a...
Does the author lack thumbs? It’s easy to twist the battery open.
That's great, but could they do something about what plays on the speaker? It's all pretty in that Apple sort of way, but the fact that its volume goes up and down makes it harder to find. Y'know, exactly the one thing you're trying to do with it?
I read they are popular with drug distributors. They ship their merch world wide using various hidden channels and couriers and this helps keep track of the merch.
Airtag is the reason of why I stil have my favourite hand luggage. I had just sat down on the train from Zurich to Basel. Suddenly, someone sat down in front of me. He looked suspicious, but I didn't pay much attention. Just before the train departed, he picked up what I thought were his belongings and left. Twenty minutes later, already on the way to Basel, I looked toward where I had left my suitcase. It was gone.…
Thankfully you were in Switzerland rather than the states, I just never see American police caring about that.
> The new AirTag is designed with the environment in mind, with 85 percent recycled plastic in the enclosure, 100 percent recycled rare earth elements in all magnets, and 100 percent recycled gold plating in all Apple-designed printed circuit boards. The paper packaging is 100 percent fiber-based and can be easily recycled. I'm no material scientist, but this seems pretty impressive to me that Apple's economy of scal…
I don't see old-gen airtags for sale on the website. Are they throwing them all out?
First-gen AirTags have been on sale on Amazon frequently over the last year, and they’ll probably drop the price again soon.
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why not pets?
I bought one for my cat, never did help with finding him, just the general area. They're not great for tracking things that move on their own, or things that avoid people.
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Do they plug into the Find My network that iOS devices use?
Yep, Tile I believe is the only third party service that exists. All other trackers either plug into "Apple Find My" or "Android Find My Device" network. There's finally starting to be a few devices that can do both, but they're rare, so make sure you get the right one when buying. But they take 10s to setup and it's very smooth.
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It's too late when they are notified. The last known address is where the victim is at.
The perpetrator has to already find the victim, and physically be there, to put the tag on the car
For example, meet someone at a convention/fair/job, gift/sell them something which has a hidden tag, and then wait for them to drive to their hotel, or home. Gotcha. With influencer and celebs, you can also send something to their agency, and hope they are re-routed to their home. S** like that happened quite often until people learned to be more careful. Probably still sometimes happens even now.
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Building an attachment point into the tag itself is still beyond current technology though. We just don't know how to do it.
> Building an attachment point into the tag To be fair, most people I know put their AirTag inside something, e.g. inner pocket of a bag. At which point the necessity for an attachment point becomes somewhat moot.
Oh, wait...
I have an older AirTag, which cannot be seen by my iPhone any more but gives a slight beep whenever it gets shaken. Anyone ever heard of the behavior?
IIRC, this indicates that it's linked to someone else's account, and has not been shared with you. The "beep when moved" feature is to alert people they're being tracked. For example, I let my mother in law use luggage of mine with an airtag still in it and every time she moved it after the first day or so, it would play a noise.