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Apple didn’t really make them mainstream. In fact Apple were really late to the game themselves. Tile and Samsung have similar products, without similar measur
by dagmx 4y ago
Apple didn’t really make them mainstream. In fact Apple were really late to the game themselves.
Tile and Samsung have similar products, without similar measures for example. Tile was hugely available at many big retail stores.
- giaour 4y agoApple’s turning on Find My Phone by default arguably did more to normalize tracking than anything else. Tile (and other niche products) were largely seen as nerdy and an extravagance at best, but AirTags were seen by the public as a logical extension of Find My Phone.
- ghaff 4y agoYes. You can simultaneously correctly say that other trackers (and ways to track someone) existed before AirTags and that most tools can be used for both good and bad and... Also say that AirTags almost certainly made tracking more mainstream and on more people's radar.
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- GekkePrutser 4y agoTile worked like crap. It was nice to find your keys indoors but way too few people had the app to find them outdoor. I connected one to an old smartphone to test, then switched off BT and marked it as lost. It took a whole month for one phone to see it. And I carried it in my bag on the subway in a city of millions (Barcelona) The ubiquity of receivers in Apple's network (and Samsung's which was introduced only 1 month before) really was a game changer.