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AirTag Shipments Reportedly Grown Over Time, Making Second-Generation Model More Likely

Macative said:
It literally says it is not an anti-theft device. What part of that is hard to understand?

Belligerent User: I want it for this.

Apple: That's not what it's for.

Belligerent User: I still want it for this.

Apple: That's not what it's for.

Belligerent User: I bought it anyway for this purpose. It doesn't work well.

Apple: That's not what it's for.

Belligerent User: AirTag bad.
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If you carefully re-read the tone of my post you’ll see this straw-man recreation of my argument isn’t accurate at all. For example I said “pointless product for me now.”
 
No no no, AirTags are not to be used for tracking your kids or dogs or stolen property…

OMG, the AirTags are successfully being used to stalk people!!! What do we do??? ***Frantically adds several anti-stalking features***

Well, which is it? Good for tracking people or not?
 
contacos said:
Most annoying Apple product I have ever bought tbh
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From what aspect?

For me - Setup is easy, using it is simple.

Most "annoying" element to me is not being able to mark a device as family (instead of merely personal).
 
DMinTX said:
I can track all my wife’s other apple devices: her Apple Watch, iPhone, AirPods, iPad. None of those are mine, either. I have my own.

Please explain why an AirTag is so different from all those devices, without just saying “because Apple said so.”.
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I already did explain it. Quite clearly. AirTag has a very narrow approved use case and Apple purposely does not make it easier to ignore that and use it for things it was not intended for.
 
Sir_Macs_A_Lot said:
Maybe they like to drink a little too much and either need family members to locate the keys to hide them...or drive them home safely.
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Some items can be family shared. Bicycle, golf clubs, spare keys for the neighbor (to feed a pet). There are some use cases where having only one person being able to track location or notification when an object leaves an area is limiting.

For me it is like 1-5 or 1-8 tags could use this feature. The rest may or may not. Also, when I have a family member's device in transit with me, no need to alert a tag "tracking me" when I already share my location with that same person.
 
Relentless Power said:
Of course Apple would discontinue the first Gens. They wouldn’t have a secondary new GEN version of an AirPod competing against a previous GEN, when it’s such a new product segment for Apple all together.

Not only that, your ‘speaker point’ to why they would raise the price seems a bit ludicrous. The majority of consumers probably have no idea about ‘speaker hack’ that certainly wouldn’t increase the price, unless it’s a very small niche market that actually knows specifically what they’re looking for.
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I’m saying they’re likely not going to keep gen 1’s around. Much due to how Apple are being raked of the coals for how they can be used for stalking I think seals that prediction.

If they stop producing them, it means the gen 1 AirTags that can actually be used for anti-theft without notifying the thief could start being a rarer product and thus raise in price, regardless of how proportionally small you think that market is.
 
Devin Breeding said:
Just tracked four I shipped to my parents to use when they move. Not only was it better than USPS tracking, but I could even tell what plane terminal it was in. They are good. Very good. Like a tiny bit of magic 🙂
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Wouldn’t the boxes start beeping after a while? That’s probably not a great idea… Your going to cause a lockdown somewhere…
 
drumcat said:
Most useful Apple product. Has been very helpful. Coming from Tile, these things have been outstanding.
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Agree, far superior to Tile, and one of those things you don't think about until you need them. I'll live with a few false alerts when the real ones have saved my bags and keys from being left behind several times - as well as keeping track of my cats.
 
Wokis said:
how proportionally small you think that market is.
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….Because it is a proportionally small market. I mean, it’s Apple smallest accessory that generates the fewest production yields manufactured, being such a new product in a very niche category. .
 
Macative said:
It's for tracking personal items. You put it on YOUR keys or YOUR backpack or YOUR bag and if you misplace it, you can find it.

It is NOT for tracking things like the family dog, which despite clearing stating it is not for, ignorant people insist on using it for that anyway. Invariably, the people who complain about it not being shared across family are people ignoring what it is used for and trying to use it for other purposes like this, that would be more useful if shared.
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I'm not trying to track a dog, but a set of keys? Why can't that be shared in the family? I can see all my kids devices in Find My, what's the difference?
 
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jonnysods said:
I'm not trying to track a dog, but a set of keys? Why can't that be shared in the family? I can see all my kids devices in Find My, what's the difference?
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User "Macative" cannot be reasoned with at all - if it's not exactly as how they would expect it, then it's wrong. Wouldn't bother wasting your time.
 
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