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From TFA Mayor Adams was asked during the press conference if AirTags work with Android (they don't). "Why would anyone have one [an Android phone]?" Mayor Ad

From TFA Mayor Adams was asked during the press conference if AirTags work with Android (they don't). "Why would anyone have one [an Android phone]?" Mayor Adams responded. Oh and given that this in New York we're talking about here, the vigilante mob are gonna go wild for this, especially after Citizen worked out so well .... But by last month, Frame was enthusiastically backing the idea of manhunts, according to screenshots of internal company communications seen by NBC News and first reported by Motherboard [1] [1] "Inside Citizen: The public safety app pushing surveillance boundaries" https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/citizen-public-safety-app-pushing-surveillance-boundaries-rcna1058 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/citizen-public-safety...

JumpCrisscross 3y ago
> Why would anyone have one [an Android phone]?" Mayor Adams responded This is a New Yorker’s response to a stupid question. AirTags have a recognised brand. Messaging “buy AirTags” comes through cleanly in a way an inclusive statement would not. Given nobody is burning city funds for this, it’s literally a PSA, a reporter asking the mayor technical questions the answer to which they know is fine to be answered dismissively.
- stefan_ 3y ago
  NYC is burning tons of city funds on police to solve ever fewer cases.
  - JumpCrisscross 3y ago
    How is that relevant?
- WheatMillington 3y ago
  Did you miss the part where the city is giving away 500 air tags? It's right at the start of the article. You did read the article, didn't you?
  - JumpCrisscross 3y ago
    > Did you miss the part where the city is giving away 500 air tags? That’s a publicity stunt, not a crime-fighting measure. I do not count five hundred AirTags as “burning city funds.”
    - asldkfjaslkdj 3y ago
      [flagged]
  - tehjoker 3y ago
    On apple's website, that's about $25 per an airtag and unless they got a deal, this is $12,500 in funds or free assets from Apple to do promotion. Skating close to corruption.
    - vkou 3y ago
      The cost to the city & its residents of dealing with a single car theft can easily be four-to-five figures. You call it corruption. Is it, or is it just a good ROI? I think it'll depend on whether this does anything, or whether NYPD will tell you to go pound sand when you report your car's location to them with an AirTag. Time will tell.
      - dheera 3y ago
        > The cost to the city & its residents of dealing with a single car theft can easily be four-to-five figures. That's ridiculous. At that rate it would be better to just buy the owner a new car. But seriously, there should be mechanisms to report your license plate or VIN as stolen and have traffic cameras automatically deploy spike strips when that license plate is detected. It would be far cheaper and not that different from reporting your credit card as stolen.
        vkou 3y ago
        > That's ridiculous. No, it's just how the world works. The unfortunate thing about property crime is that frequently, $50 worth of gain often results in $500-$5,000 worth of damages and costs. Just ask anyone who's had a catalytic converter stolen, or their copper ripped out. > But seriously, there should be mechanisms to report your license plate as stolen and have traffic cameras automatically deploy spike strips when that license plate is detected.... It would be far cheaper... Designing and deploying an automatic system for 'Automatically deploying spike strips', (besides being a bad idea) in a city like NYC will be an eight-figure sort of project. That will assure that in the best-case scenario, a car theft will run four-figures worth of damages. In the worst case, it will do nothing, because the car's been abandoned, or is being taken apart in a Jersey chop-shop by the time you report it stolen.
- pookah 3y ago
  It's a legitimate question. Why is the mayor of NYC shilling a product? NYC is one of the worlds largest city governments so It's not out of the realm of possibility that this is a native ad for I-Phones.
  - MisterTea 3y ago
    Eric Adams is an ass.

JumpCrisscross 3y ago

> Why would anyone have one [an Android phone]?" Mayor Adams responded This is a New Yorker’s response to a stupid question. AirTags have a recognised brand. Messaging “buy AirTags” comes through cleanly in a way an inclusive statement would not. Given nobody is burning city funds for this, it’s literally a PSA, a reporter asking the mayor technical questions the answer to which they know is fine to be answered dismissively.

stefan_ 3y ago
NYC is burning tons of city funds on police to solve ever fewer cases.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago
  How is that relevant?
WheatMillington 3y ago
Did you miss the part where the city is giving away 500 air tags? It's right at the start of the article. You did read the article, didn't you?
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago
  > Did you miss the part where the city is giving away 500 air tags? That’s a publicity stunt, not a crime-fighting measure. I do not count five hundred AirTags as “burning city funds.”
  - asldkfjaslkdj 3y ago
    [flagged]
- tehjoker 3y ago
  On apple's website, that's about $25 per an airtag and unless they got a deal, this is $12,500 in funds or free assets from Apple to do promotion. Skating close to corruption.
  - vkou 3y ago
    The cost to the city & its residents of dealing with a single car theft can easily be four-to-five figures. You call it corruption. Is it, or is it just a good ROI? I think it'll depend on whether this does anything, or whether NYPD will tell you to go pound sand when you report your car's location to them with an AirTag. Time will tell.
    - dheera 3y ago
      > The cost to the city & its residents of dealing with a single car theft can easily be four-to-five figures. That's ridiculous. At that rate it would be better to just buy the owner a new car. But seriously, there should be mechanisms to report your license plate or VIN as stolen and have traffic cameras automatically deploy spike strips when that license plate is detected. It would be far cheaper and not that different from reporting your credit card as stolen.
      - vkou 3y ago
        > That's ridiculous. No, it's just how the world works. The unfortunate thing about property crime is that frequently, $50 worth of gain often results in $500-$5,000 worth of damages and costs. Just ask anyone who's had a catalytic converter stolen, or their copper ripped out. > But seriously, there should be mechanisms to report your license plate as stolen and have traffic cameras automatically deploy spike strips when that license plate is detected.... It would be far cheaper... Designing and deploying an automatic system for 'Automatically deploying spike strips', (besides being a bad idea) in a city like NYC will be an eight-figure sort of project. That will assure that in the best-case scenario, a car theft will run four-figures worth of damages. In the worst case, it will do nothing, because the car's been abandoned, or is being taken apart in a Jersey chop-shop by the time you report it stolen.
pookah 3y ago
It's a legitimate question. Why is the mayor of NYC shilling a product? NYC is one of the worlds largest city governments so It's not out of the realm of possibility that this is a native ad for I-Phones.
- MisterTea 3y ago
  Eric Adams is an ass.