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That ‘anti-stalker’ feature sounds like it’s a burden to recovering items that are stolen . …what’s a bigger issue theft or stalking ? Aren’t sure tags more abo
by realitysballs 5y ago
That ‘anti-stalker’ feature sounds like it’s a burden to recovering items that are stolen . …what’s a bigger issue theft or stalking ? Aren’t sure tags more about theft prevention than stalking prevention?
- Jtsummers 5y agoIf they didn't have that feature, they'd be vilified. It's a necessary compromise to make a useful thing socially acceptable.
- arsome 5y agoI'm noticing Apple making a lot of rather poor decisions to make things "socially acceptable" lately.
- Jtsummers 5y agoMaybe, but I'm not convinced that it's a poor decision in this case. AirTags were billed, from the start, as a "find your stuff" device, not an anti-theft device. In that vein, the potential for abuse as a stalking device was more important to resolve than the potential diminished utility as an anti-theft device (when it's not an explicit objective for them).
- lostlogin 5y agoAre you arguing that they choose poorly when they decided not to make the ultimate stalking device?
- SilverRed 5y agoThink about it this way, before and after the airtag, theft was just as much of a problem. So no harm done. Without the anti stalking features, this would have become a problem which did not exist nearly to the same scale and ease. The airtags would have been extremely good stalking tools without these safeties and even with them you can still get some anti theft protection as the airtags do not notify until the holder gets home and your app will hold the last known location (their house)
- dkdbejwi383 5y agoApple have stated that air tags are for locating lost items only, not for stolen items. If the beeping makes it difficult to recover your stolen items, you’re holding it wrong.
- SZJX 5y agoAgreed. Besides I don’t think that any serious stalker would actually resort to something so standard as AirTag to stalk their victims. Sure it might deter some random would-be stalkers from having this idea, but feels more like a move for PR’s sake than for the stated reason.
- stjohnswarts 5y agoStalking because people die or get severely injured as opposed to losing a material item. I reckon Apple would side on that side of things.