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My speculation: this ties into thier ultra wideband location technology: a killer feature would be the ability to LoJack and kill any device globally. As well
by someguydave 7y ago
My speculation: this ties into thier ultra wideband location technology: a killer feature would be the ability to LoJack and kill any device globally. As well as find anything with a UWB sticker attached.
Not to mention you can provision phones and computers without carrier activation.
- techslave 7y agoUWB has very short distance, inherent to the technology. it would be unrelated to this.
- someguydave 7y agoThat is the case today because of regulation. I’m implying that phones and iPads and laptops etc. could be turned into UWB-locating relay stations which report nearby UWB beacons directly to Apple via satellite even if they are “offline”
- jpeg_hero 7y agoMy guess would be along similar lines a sort of always on, low bandwidth, side channel. So activation and a bootstrap for the next generation of weird protocols apple would love to cook up. I don’t know at all how airdrop works, but you could see it brokered through the apple network. Or like you mentioned a find my iPhone(and lock) that works globally without needing the phone to register to wifi/cell network. Or this p2p networking they’ve been talking about, that whole thing is a lot easier with a guaranteed signal to broker the nodes.