46 ms·
What if you don't have an iPhone?
by rodiger 5y ago
What if you don't have an iPhone?
- p49k 5y agoThat’s in the article too. It will start beeping when moved if it’s following someone that’s not the owner for a while.
- rodiger 5y agoDoesn't help if it's, say, on the undercarriage/trunk of your car.
- jtsiskin 5y agoOr if you cut the wire to the beeper..
- booleandilemma 5y agoSo if a thief steals my jacket with an AirTag inside, some time later it’ll start beeping? At which point he’ll discard the AirTag and I won’t be able to track down my jacket. Kinda lame.
- zepto 5y agoNot if the alert is delayed
- zepto 5y agoTurns out that it is delayed by 3 days.
- shuckles 5y agoYou assume that in a counter-factual world, professional thieves can’t learn to check the pockets of stolen jackets? They are already known to use Bluetooth network scanners to identify, eg, cars with electronics stored inside.
- Dylan16807 5y agoHow often do you imagine a professional thief stealing a jacket?
- shuckles 5y agoI can’t think of many thieves trying to steal jackets, but that was the OP’s hypothetical, not mine.
- Dylan16807 5y agoOP's hypothetical was a thief stealing a jacket. But I would expect that to not be professional territory. You added professional.
- booleandilemma 5y agoOP here. Can confirm. I was not envisioning an Arsène Lupin type character attempting to steal a jacket.
- wombat-man 5y agoI think Apple decided preventing people from using Airtags to stalk someone is more important than preventing theft. Makes sense to me, can you imagine a high profile murder occurring because the perp was able to follow them with an airtag?
- kstrauser 5y agoI could see having a wider window, say 2 days, for reporting itself. That would give you some time to find your stolen stuff, but would still be an expensive pain in the ass for the stalker to rotate that frequently.
- oh_sigh 5y agoYou're assuming the stalker is some rando, not, say, a jealous spouse who wants to make sure they really are going to work every day.
- SilverRed 5y agoI assume it notifies ios users before it starts beeping. Sure that still leaves out android users but there is only so much they can do and there are many other products which do the same thing with 0 safety features.
- gruez 5y agoThat's why it's advertised as "find things that got lost" product, and not "find things that got stolen" product (eg. lojack).
- shuckles 5y agoIf you don’t have an iPhone, your device isn’t assisting the tracker. This is equivalent to being tracked by any one of the many existing such devices.