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AirTag or similar tool could be a great way to track important packages we mail. Courier services could use this by default & provide better tracking data for t

AirTag or similar tool could be a great way to track important packages we mail. Courier services could use this by default & provide better tracking data for their customers. I recently mailed a document to India & I have no clue where it is.

hughrr 5y ago
You can buy devices for this purpose already: https://tive.co/tive-solo-5g/ https://tive.co/tive-solo-5g/
- Scoundreller 5y ago
  To get started, they say “Request a Trial”. You know it’s going to be pricy. And difficult to resell once you’re done.
  - theshrike79 5y ago
    I'm gonna go with "not resellable". It's a 99% certainty that the device is backed by a SaaS backend with a monthly subscription per device. You won't be owning the device at any point.
Scoundreller 5y ago
I’m looking forward to a world where the iPhone mesh net lets me move any amount of data from place to place without needing any long-range wired or wireless network link, just apple phones moving around. We largely go the same places every day, and apple could figure out how to send a message or request for a song/movie/file/update and it just appears a few hours or couple days later. Like a transparent sneakernet that uses onion routing. We have some satellite-internet fed remote areas in Canada, and how to get your phone updated without a local IX means everyone chews through data just for system updates. They do have daily or weekly flights however. Loading up an SD card for the trips back and forth could work, but complicated. When MS released the Zune with wifi, I hoped I could sit in an airport and “borrow” songs from other users/hosters, but I don’t think it worked that way. Worldwide, high-latency LAN. For basically free by doing what we already do.
kylehotchkiss 5y ago
It’s in one of the airport customs offices buried under piles of parcels from China they don’t want to process (new policies on imports from China keep changing but those packages keep arriving) and under lower priority than the Covid aid they are processing I can’t imagine many of the staff there have iPhones nor would iPhone owners be super close to the building.

hughrr 5y ago

You can buy devices for this purpose already: https://tive.co/tive-solo-5g/ https://tive.co/tive-solo-5g/

Scoundreller 5y ago
To get started, they say “Request a Trial”. You know it’s going to be pricy. And difficult to resell once you’re done.
- theshrike79 5y ago
  I'm gonna go with "not resellable". It's a 99% certainty that the device is backed by a SaaS backend with a monthly subscription per device. You won't be owning the device at any point.

Scoundreller 5y ago

I’m looking forward to a world where the iPhone mesh net lets me move any amount of data from place to place without needing any long-range wired or wireless network link, just apple phones moving around. We largely go the same places every day, and apple could figure out how to send a message or request for a song/movie/file/update and it just appears a few hours or couple days later. Like a transparent sneakernet that uses onion routing. We have some satellite-internet fed remote areas in Canada, and how to get your phone updated without a local IX means everyone chews through data just for system updates. They do have daily or weekly flights however. Loading up an SD card for the trips back and forth could work, but complicated. When MS released the Zune with wifi, I hoped I could sit in an airport and “borrow” songs from other users/hosters, but I don’t think it worked that way. Worldwide, high-latency LAN. For basically free by doing what we already do.

kylehotchkiss 5y ago

It’s in one of the airport customs offices buried under piles of parcels from China they don’t want to process (new policies on imports from China keep changing but those packages keep arriving) and under lower priority than the Covid aid they are processing I can’t imagine many of the staff there have iPhones nor would iPhone owners be super close to the building.