Customers can personalize AirTag with free engraving, including text and a selection of 31 emoji, when purchasing them. That's a nice touch.
Apple Introduces AirTag
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#192> AirTag is designed for over a year’s worth of battery life with everyday use. The CR2032 battery is user-replaceable and widely available. Replacement batteries are sold separately. That's the piece of information I wanted to know first. Devices like this can be built, but those can't run on batteries for a reasonable time frame. Apple made it practical.
Didn't expect user replaceable commodity batteries from Apple. That's nice.
It is ridiculous that something as basic as having a user replaceable battery is considered an unexpected nice feature.
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#193Considering world environmental issues we should slow down consumerism around the world rather than accelerate it. For me it looks like a useless piece of tech in a long run (30-50 years). My opinion
On the other hand, a lost bag containing a laptop would result in the use of a lot of materials if you wanted to replace it + contents.
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#194If I was evil and stuck these to ex-girlfriend/boyfriend car or something, illegal? Edit: Downvoters. I am not doing this obviously. Am asking as this is the clear abuse I see. Tracking people without permission. I see this as being a weird legal thing we hear about down the road.
From the link: "iOS devices can also detect an AirTag that isn’t with its owner, and notify the user if an unknown AirTag is seen to be traveling with them from place to place over time."
So what about the majority of people who do not own an iOS device? They can be tracked?
Somehow I don't see this idea working out when law makers start seeing what kind of things this product enables.
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some train rides are quite long
I don't know what Apple is doing behind the scenes here, but if I were Apple, I would generate much more "signal" from "this AirTag is traveling with this one person that is not its owner" than from "this AirTag is traveling with forty people that are not its owner".
And maybe this tag is generating a stronger signal than any other and is registered to me. Apple is all about the user experience so I assume they have a solution, just curious what it is.
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
So, this prevents some legitimate use cases, for example putting a tag in a suitcase for the flight, because it'll start beeping at some point? A shame. It would've been cool standing at that conveyor belt at the airport and rather than staring at the luggage as it comes, being able to sense one's own stuff. Also, seems that it's not suitable for putting on a cat or dog's collar for the same reason.
Presumably "extended period of time" is several days, not several hours.
That would defeat the purpose of this anti-tracking [counter]measure. One would be able to sneak a tag into someone's bag (or clothes, or car) and track their movement for the whole day. Then get back into tag's proximity to reset the timer.
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#197Can you AirTag your kids?
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#198Does it make more sense for a moderator to combine these Apple product announcements into a single entry?
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
As pointed out above, this is already the status quo (replacable battery, 1 year life, etc). Tile has had it for years. I'm curious if it would've been technically feasible to have wireless charging on these instead of replaceable battery. Or would that greatly increase the price?
Tile has user replaceable batteries on some of their products. Granted, it seems to be on their best sellers, but I somehow ended up with the thin ones, and I found out those don't have replaceable batteries after they died.
There was definitely a time when they had no product that had replaceable batteries in their line.
I swore Tile off when I found out the hard way that the battery gives out a year from time of sale, not from when you activate it.
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#200I had a Tile set that I put on my keys, backpack, wallet and luggage. In the end it was too annoying with bluetooth usage draining my phone's battery and not working reliably enough when I needed it, now all the Tile stuff is sitting in a drawer. Maybe Apple can do better with their attention to UX but the main thing I learned is that these things are a whole lot less useful than they might sound. Apple probably need…
Modern Bluetooth does not drain batteries. How do you think they can run a tag on a button cell for a year?
Was referring to my phone's battery life, not the battery on the Tiles themselves. Could have been location services usage as well as Bluetooth, and to be fair to Tile they have rolled out a lot of updates to the Android app since I stopped using it, many of them promising reduced background battery usage.