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AirTags Available for Purchase on Amazon, Best Buy and More
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Going to jump in here with a prediction. 48 hours after first orders arrive, people be like “Wow, my AirTag scratches easily”.
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AirTag scratches likely, even with gentle handling – reviewers - 9to5Mac
A number of reviewers and early users say you should definitely expect to see AirTag scratches, even if you are careful with them ...
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What is stopping any reseller of providing the same service? Oh that's right...nothing. If Best Buy wanted to have a little kiosk in store to engrave various electronics purchased by their customers, they would.
It can be fatal for a child, and has been in several cases.
Girl, 12, dies after swallowing tiny lithium button battery from watch
A SCHOOLGIRL who had just celebrated her 12th birthday died in agony after swallowing a tiny button battery. Tragic Valeria Makarova was at first told by hospital doctors it would pass through her…
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I’ve recently lost three vaping devices at parties. Having the device and the AirTag attached to the same keychain will save me a ton of money.
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Good thing my heads attached or id need one for it. Wait maybe I should get one for it just in case
We went to see a house yesterday and when we got back my other half had misplaced her keys... after wondering if she had dropped them in the house or in the building site that the house was on (road wasn't in at that point 
) and finally after a good search of the car they turned up.
That very same night she questioned the whole reason behind AirTags because 'we never lose our keys'... erm... ordered a 4 pack and they have a delivery date on the 30th. I might even give her one and the key fob I bought and order another although her clump of keys is like Douglas Adams mentioned in Dirk Gently's Holistic detective agency 'like something a fit Ninja could throw through a tree' whilst mine is 1 house key and the car fob - I keep the other less used keys separate and never carry them (less is more).
) and finally after a good search of the car they turned up.That very same night she questioned the whole reason behind AirTags because 'we never lose our keys'... erm... ordered a 4 pack and they have a delivery date on the 30th. I might even give her one and the key fob I bought and order another although her clump of keys is like Douglas Adams mentioned in Dirk Gently's Holistic detective agency 'like something a fit Ninja could throw through a tree' whilst mine is 1 house key and the car fob - I keep the other less used keys separate and never carry them (less is more).
Even if the middle person corporate giant big box retailer is offering better pricing?
Suggestion: Why put it ON your dog? Put it IN your dog by smuggling it into your dog‘s food bowl. You‘ll probably need two alternating Airtags for every other day, though.
Picked up four, because why not.
Do they float?
Probably not...until they come out of the other end. Water blocks radio signals.
Do they float?
I might leave it to the professionals! My point is that apple are moving away from function being more important from form. IPads are brilliantly functional, they look great too.
The latest iMac looks stunning but is in fact less useful than other machines because of some reduced functionality sacrificed for beauty.
These tags are stupid, they don’t attach securely to the thing you may lose!
design 101 fail.
Plenty of collars out there for this. I would use a collar like this and not just attach a holder that dangles off the collar.
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Has anyone come across a dog collar or collar attachment? I found one at Alibaba but it’s for bulk orders of 400+.
This use case is going to put smart dog collar brands out of business. Usually they’re bulky GPS units that come with a monthly subscription. A small AirTag can easily slip onto a collar and is a one time $29 expense.
This use case is going to put smart dog collar brands out of business. Usually they’re bulky GPS units that come with a monthly subscription. A small AirTag can easily slip onto a collar and is a one time $29 expense.
what surprises me is how inadequate an understanding you have of the human mind, and how it works.
there are simple, and i mean kindergarten-level ELI5 descriptions of why even extremely intellectual people, we're talking CEO/PhD holding/neurosurgeon type people, have difficulty with menial tasks such as keeping track of ones keys.
but sure, they must be scatter brained. because i care terribly that the person poking around my brain with a probe needs a bluetooth tracker for their purse.
not quite. if a dog collar can have GPS, it wins out vs airtag for the plain reason that if your dog runs away, you're going to get random pings of where they are when they occasionally end up near another iphone user who also has airtags, vs getting a clear-er picture of where they are, more frequently.
not to mention, airtags can be disabled by virtually anyone the moment iOS feels like they've exceeded the bounds of their use case. which is: to be tracking items in proximity of the user's own device.
you could be on to something, for perhaps a future iteration of airtag where tracking something like say, one's dog, is necessary.
Back in the before-times, in the long, long ago, my boss had his backpack swiped at a tech conference. It was in a pile in the back of the room, and someone just walked off with it. Replacing house keys, all those stupid dongles needed by MBPs now, his wallet... it's all replaceable, but a colossal pain. These AirTags are great for that. Even if we ever go back to working in offices, I didn't lock up my backpack under my desk. This would add a little bit of peace if it walked off.
I'm going to stick one of these in my wristlet wallet. It only takes one time to forget a zip a zipper and have this fall out of my purse/leave it on a table after paying for a meal to have a bad day.
Find My will update the location of an Air Tag as they are within reach of any iPhone — which in Toronto is quite literally everywhere. That would tell me where to go, at which point my own iPhone would pick up the Air Tag. I’m not expecting my dog to get in an Uber and drive 100 miles away from me. Getting a general area is enough to find my dog if she were to run off.
As for disabling an AirTag, I’m not particularly worried about someone dog napping my pooch. Someone would have to deliberately remove the battery, in which case they’d just as easily remove a GPS tracker.
Pet trackers cost a couple hundred dollars upfront plus $100+ per year and their battery needs to be recharged almost daily. It’s pretty clear which device has the advantage here.