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Speaking as someone who owns several Tiles, I don't understand Tile. Airtags are an order of magnitude more useful and only slightly more expensive. The manufac

by causi 4y ago

Speaking as someone who owns several Tiles, I don't understand Tile. Airtags are an order of magnitude more useful and only slightly more expensive. The manufacturing cost for a Tile can't be more than a couple of bucks. Not only are they trying to charge almost as much as an Airtag, they charge you a monthly fee if you want to get alerted when you lose connection with your Tile. If Tiles were ten bucks a piece I'd have them all over the place. Is this company suicidal?

fragmede 4y ago
Economy of scale. What they are, is tiny next to Apple, and they don't get the same efficiencies from mass manufacturing as Apple, with their practically infinitly deep pockets, is able to buy.
- causi 4y ago
  They had an eight year head start on building bluetooth trackers over Apple.
  - therealcamino 4y ago
    If I understand correctly, I think the key problem for Tile is that Apple can use the billions of Apple devices out there as a network to locate AirTags. Tile only has available to it those devices that have the Tile app installed. We had a Tile years ago in my mom's purse to help her find it, so since it wasn't with me personally I'd get notifications when it was located somewhere that wasn't her home. It seemed like there wasn't great coverage.
savanaly 4y ago
Does airtag have a button on it like tile does that can be configured to send a find my iPhone Bluetooth signal? I have a friend who has a tile so I know it can do this but I couldn’t find that listed as a feature of airtags.
- causi 4y ago
  It does not. However, a phone can be located using almost any computerized device, from another phone, a computer, or a smart speaker. Heck, you can even walk around yelling "hey google/siri, find my phone!" and the phone itself will pick it up.
- vineyardmike 4y ago
  No. But most apple users have several apple devices before they get AirTags, and one apple device can find another. You can ask Siri to ping your phone, you can use FindMy on a different device to ping your phone, and you can use a button on the Apple Watch (on your wrist already) to ping your phone.

by causi 4y ago

fragmede 4y ago

Economy of scale. What they are, is tiny next to Apple, and they don't get the same efficiencies from mass manufacturing as Apple, with their practically infinitly deep pockets, is able to buy.

causi 4y ago
They had an eight year head start on building bluetooth trackers over Apple.
- therealcamino 4y ago
  If I understand correctly, I think the key problem for Tile is that Apple can use the billions of Apple devices out there as a network to locate AirTags. Tile only has available to it those devices that have the Tile app installed. We had a Tile years ago in my mom's purse to help her find it, so since it wasn't with me personally I'd get notifications when it was located somewhere that wasn't her home. It seemed like there wasn't great coverage.

savanaly 4y ago

Does airtag have a button on it like tile does that can be configured to send a find my iPhone Bluetooth signal? I have a friend who has a tile so I know it can do this but I couldn’t find that listed as a feature of airtags.

causi 4y ago
It does not. However, a phone can be located using almost any computerized device, from another phone, a computer, or a smart speaker. Heck, you can even walk around yelling "hey google/siri, find my phone!" and the phone itself will pick it up.
vineyardmike 4y ago
No. But most apple users have several apple devices before they get AirTags, and one apple device can find another. You can ask Siri to ping your phone, you can use FindMy on a different device to ping your phone, and you can use a button on the Apple Watch (on your wrist already) to ping your phone.