I also choose this guys 100+ pound wife!

> I switched to an android for my work phone a year or so ago and it is still plagued with glitchy and unintuitive interfaces.

A Google Pixel or another stock Android phone? Or a shitty one where the OS has been murdered by both the manufacturer and operator?

There’s a big issue in the moving industry, because customers are putting them in their shipments to track them across the country. Some drivers are against it, and some are ok with it. I imagine that soon it will be come standard that people should know where their stuff is. I mean you can track a piece of mail or a box, why not all of your worldly possessions?

Neither ideally

Whose ‘lap’ is this designed for, André the Giant?

That's stupid.

3-4 years is about average.

What do you mean?

People buy what their carriers sell them. I certainly do not want a new phone every two years, especially when what I've got works already. If that makes me "nobody", so be it.

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My brother placed an air tag in his sons backpack. When I pick up my nephew from school, I would get the notification hours later. It was a very strange notification the first couple of times, til I looked closer at the notification, saw the route and made the connection.

So, a swappable battery is now considered "repairable"? We're rapidly devolving.

But what if it’s not hidden? How does it know the difference between a hidden tag and a not hidden tag?

Apple cant police people. The tags are intended to track personal items. If someone you are/were being intimate with sees you as such, thats very much a you-and-them problem.

Me too

It can't possibly be a scam - the company has ties to law enforcement!

>As with any Kickstarter, product shipment is not guaranteed, and there is little if any recourse if the project goes bad. However, given that the company has ties to law enforcement, they are likely motivated to ship the product, and not defraud backers.

/s

If you don't think you should have to download a free app, I don't think you'll be inclined to purchase this device either.
Also; tracking people like this isn't new technology. There are many other brands out there like Tile with less safety precautions which would be better for stalking.
I get people are getting stalked regardless; but it has to be at a WAYYY less rate than more covert trackers.

oh no people are excited about a colour what imbeciles…

As usual, no one read the article. This is just some shitty kickstarter scam. The product doesn’t exist.

So the Apple business model is to force people who don't already have their products to buy them or be at risk of stalking by Apple's own products?

But I shouldn't be forced to install this app and keep it running just because some company I don't do business with designed a product in a way that puts the public at risk.

This can be done already. This device is completely unnecessary.

I had an Aussie coworker in the 1980s kid me saying “you yanks slap a handle on anything and call it portable”. Andre The Giant couldn’t have fit this on his lap. 🤣

... right. I think the point is, it's faster to notify you of a known tag nearby.

It would obviously take longer to compile the data of whether or not a tag has been near you for a while, to indicate possible tracking.

Just pointing out that your original comment about it not being your experience (that it takes hours) could easily be explained by the fact that it's notifying you of a tag you commonly interact with.