How long do they last?
I've had mine since release, every single one still works.
Had to change batteries a few times.
Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability
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#612Nice, does it support Android yet?
It supports Android, but does Android support it?
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UK police is more interested in combating wrong thought
Absolutely not the case. This is just what overly online people think.
Tbf, it's not the case that they are more worried about wrongthink because they're just not worried at all by petty theft - or almost any other instance of micro-criminality.
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#614And they didn't put a small loop in it so you can attach one of those skinny little lanyard hoops?! Attaching these things to anything is their major flaw. /picard facepalm
How else can they make you buy a keychain holder that costs more than the AirTag itself?
I've bought all of mine on Aliexpress.
So ... not much of a dastardly plan from Apple?
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#615I was hoping for 6DoF sub-mm realtime tracking. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
Would be great, but that, world-wide, for millions of objects, probably is a case of putting your expectations too high. Has that ever been demonstrated for a single object, even if allowing the object to be a thousand times as large as this?
Just have an unique ipv6 address on every object. Easy.
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Maybe not if one of those items is always in your backpack. A few other use cases that I think they're great for: - Throw one in your checked bag when traveling - Mount one in a relatively concealed location on your bike - Keychain (depending on if you're prone to misplacing your keys)
In addition to your first use case, multiple airlines are now supporting AirTag for bag tracking.
As is noted on the linked article. Some airlines have specific software that can do it if you share the tag with them - and the sharing will automatically stop when you receive the bags.
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UK police is more interested in combating wrong thought
Absolutely not the case. This is just what overly online people think.
There's a recent video of a woman getting arrested, not for the first time, for admitting that she might be praying to herself inside her head, silently.
Here's an article I searched up about it: https://adfinternational.org/news/uk-christian-woman-crimina...
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UK police is more interested in combating wrong thought
Oh for gods sake, can we stop this nonsense mad twitter trope spreading through HN. Having been a cop in the UK, we will happily got nick a robber if they're on the move and tell us where they are, and we don't arrest people for "wrong thought" on twitter unless that happens to be repeatedly messaging your ex and telling her about how you're going to do murder them. yes, some of my stupid colleagues will once in a bl…
In Canada the police are pretty lazy and it's mostly due to who they hire, and also a LOT of political garbage as it's a federal police force throughout the country in most cases -- run from Ottawa.
Not much real police work happening any more unless you criticize the government or do something they can use as a reason to grow their budgets or otherwise further political agendas.
If there is a video of a crime they do like that...easy! Also they can show it to media for props.
Lazy cops just love centralized 'social' media and the fools who post their lives on it for them to snoop through.
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#619It sounds like the external dimensions are going to be exactly the same or nearly so. I'm hoping the battery compartment is also identical so that third-party mounting and extended battery packs continue to work. I recently picked up a few of these extended battery packs and it would be nice to eventually upgrade the AirTag if the extended range turns out to be meaningful. They're pretty neat, you remove the battery…
Elevantionlab is weird as they don't really sell outside of the US. Canada and UK, that's it.
Don't they want people's money or what's the business case here?
They DID ship here a long time ago, I owned their aluminium docks and a few other things.
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It’s never possible for things to be good with people like you. It’s not 100% recycled, which would be better. But surely, this is better than 0% recycled??
Ironically, it's worse. I just wrote another comment about this. Recycled plastics carry more toxic load and shed more (and more fragmented) microplastics into the environment. Recycled plastics only win out on carbon emissions. Moral of the story: plastic is just not good. Avoid buying things made out of ANY kind plastic if you are going to regularly wash and mechanically agitate them. You won't eliminate 100% of wa…
That's good to know. My understanding though is that they don't use 100% recycled plastic to prevent that? I thought the ~20% non recycled plastic was kinda "stabilizing" the whole thing but maybe that's not true