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Google decided to delay the release until apple updated their unknown tracker alert to support google's bluetooth tracking devices. Not sure why, but it took on

• MBCook 3y ago
  Seems odd. Unless that was going to require hardware changes I don’t see why you’d need to delay. That still leaves 2 years past Apple’s long rumored debut.
  • kelnos 3y ago
    Anti-competitive behavior is why. Apple had no need to update their unknown tracker alert software on any particular timescale. And if Google was willing to wait until Apple made that update, Apple could certainly drag their feet and delay Google's launch for a while. Presumably Google would have, eventually, said "ok, enough is enough, we're releasing on X date whether or not you've updated yet". And maybe that's indeed what happened! At that point Apple really would want to finish that update, since not doing so could be a privacy hole for their customers. (The same privacy hole Android users had to deal with in the early days of AirTags when we couldn't detect them.)
    • MBCook 3y ago
      Apple not updating Apple software is why Google couldn’t release a Google product for Google phones?
      • lxgr 3y ago
        Yeah, that's the narrative I'm seeing in many news outlets, but it doesn't make sense to me. Did Apple wait for Google to release an anti-stalking feature detecting AirTags before releasing them?
        • i5-2520M 3y ago
          No, and there was a whole lot of negative press/safety concerns due to letting these easy to use trackers out in the wild.