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> The safeguards are a work in progress I find it curious that I've never seen any such articles for Tile and co. It really feels like that by taking any step
by soneil 5y ago
> The safeguards are a work in progress
I find it curious that I've never seen any such articles for Tile and co. It really feels like that by taking any steps to solve it at all, all Apple have actually achieved is to bring awareness to an issue which either already existed, or never existed?
Why are airtags being treated specially here?
- madeofpalk 5y agoProbably for the same reason why Apple added additional measures that Tile and co. didn't - Apple is placed on a higher pedestal and has a lot more attention focused on it. Put bluntly, people don't care about Tile as much as they care about Apple (in both a positive and negative way).
- michaelt 5y agoGetting super-high levels of press attention is both a blessing and a curse for Apple. A blessing because they get loads of hype and attention when they release a new laptop or cell phone - far more than Dell or HTC product releases do. A curse because it's been possible to buy generic GPS tracker modules on ebay for years, and yet the moment Apple starts selling trackers they get far more attention than ebay sellers ever did. And stories about chinese factory worker suicides, right-to-repair and environmental damage from raw material mining all like to mention Apple by name.
- maxerickson 5y agoApple's surveillance network is a lot bigger.