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I have no use for them either. My guess is for people traveling? Or for possible expensive equipment that might get stolen? Maybe someone that has a use case f

I have no use for them either. My guess is for people traveling? Or for possible expensive equipment that might get stolen? Maybe someone that has a use case for these will chime in. Might be some in one of the other announcement threads I'd have to go look.

sleepybrett 5y ago
I misplace my keys, often. Even after placing a small dish near my front door and trying to form a habit around using it. I opted into a Tile as soon as they came to market. It works great, not only can I find my keys if I have my phone, but also visa versa (tile has a button that causes your phone to chime as long as it's in range). I have a little 'tile dot' (smaller form factor) attached to my wireless headphones charging case. It's black and hard to see via 'scanning'.. I see other headphones now have this tech integrated into the device, that seems awesome. It's also a very cheap way to do gps type things, this is going to be especially effective with air tags I suspect. The tile trackers are essentially bluetooth beacons and all tiles can be detected by any phone that has the tile app on it (i assume, I'm only familiar with the apple side of this particular equation). I expect that number is growing but fairly low. However every moderish iphone will be detecting airtags, that's going to give you a ton of coverage. This opens up some other things like 'find my car's airtag in this huge parking lot'
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jon-wood 5y ago
The (completely legitimate) anti-tracking measures built into AirTags means that they're not really viable for tracking things that have been stolen. Recent iOS devices will alert you fairly rapidly if you've got an AirTag that isn't registered nearby when the owner of that AirTag also isn't nearby. That means that if someone steals your wallet with an AirTag in it they're going to get alerted to the fact it's trackable within 30 minutes or so, and given instructions on how to disable the tag. Scanning the tag with any NFC capable device will also allow disabling it - I could definitely see professional pickpockets waving a phone over any wallets they take to kill tracking as soon as they can.

sleepybrett 5y ago

I misplace my keys, often. Even after placing a small dish near my front door and trying to form a habit around using it. I opted into a Tile as soon as they came to market. It works great, not only can I find my keys if I have my phone, but also visa versa (tile has a button that causes your phone to chime as long as it's in range). I have a little 'tile dot' (smaller form factor) attached to my wireless headphones charging case. It's black and hard to see via 'scanning'.. I see other headphones now have this tech integrated into the device, that seems awesome. It's also a very cheap way to do gps type things, this is going to be especially effective with air tags I suspect. The tile trackers are essentially bluetooth beacons and all tiles can be detected by any phone that has the tile app on it (i assume, I'm only familiar with the apple side of this particular equation). I expect that number is growing but fairly low. However every moderish iphone will be detecting airtags, that's going to give you a ton of coverage. This opens up some other things like 'find my car's airtag in this huge parking lot'

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jon-wood 5y ago

The (completely legitimate) anti-tracking measures built into AirTags means that they're not really viable for tracking things that have been stolen. Recent iOS devices will alert you fairly rapidly if you've got an AirTag that isn't registered nearby when the owner of that AirTag also isn't nearby. That means that if someone steals your wallet with an AirTag in it they're going to get alerted to the fact it's trackable within 30 minutes or so, and given instructions on how to disable the tag. Scanning the tag with any NFC capable device will also allow disabling it - I could definitely see professional pickpockets waving a phone over any wallets they take to kill tracking as soon as they can.