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Apple's Rumored Tile Competitor May Offer ARKit and Leashing Capabilities
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A new subscription service that tracks you, yeah awesome.
It used to be that if you lost your phone or your wallet, it was no big deal. Now your whole life is on there. More features to protect them are good.
This is really cool tech, I'm excited to see it expand.
Hopefully they build it into the Apple TV remote.
Hopefully they build it into the Apple TV remote.
I’m interested in seeing this at the keynote.
Speaking of which... where the heck are the invites? Isn’t the keynote to be rumored to take place on September 10th? Aka less than 2 weeks away?
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People have been losing their wallets and keys for decades.
If tech can help us solve this problem, what’s the issue? Isn’t that the point of technology- To make our lives easier?
Speaking of which... where the heck are the invites? Isn’t the keynote to be rumored to take place on September 10th? Aka less than 2 weeks away?
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People have been losing their wallets and keys for decades.
If tech can help us solve this problem, what’s the issue? Isn’t that the point of technology- To make our lives easier?
Or epoxied into your $12,000 custom bicycle, so it can be recovered when some kid steals it with an angle grinder hoping to turn it around quick for $200.
Thanks for the tip. I never knew that Apple charged a subscription fee for Find My. I’m going to cancel it right now and save some money.
oh wait....
I agree with this original post that this new "feature" is severely problematic. Think of the privacy implications. I know, you didn't think of that...but if you did think of privacy implications, you would be a bit more concerned.
People are likely to want this feature because 1) they spent $1,000 on a phone and 2) they have all their personal info on said phone, which they don't want a stranger to have. But in the name of "protecting" their "investment" and all their data, such as bank passwords and credit cards, they wittingly or unwittingly grant a giant corporation access to their every move, entrusting all their personal info to said giant corporation. What could go wrong?
(Hint: both problems 1 and 2 can easily be fixed without being tracked by Apple. I suggest not doing your banking or handling critical info on a device you believe you are likely to lose, or which can be lost, whether or not you are likely to lose it.)
We assume nothing will go wrong in terms of privacy, because Apple...but at the same time, even if Apple is truly benevolent, Apple itself becomes a target from being so big and having so much data. And we know how in recent times there have been a whole bunch of major security breaches of large companies...security is just an illusion.
I'm not saying that removing this feature would prevent us from having our every move tracked, because that is obviously not the case. Basically everyone is trying to track us.
Maybe it is slightly better that Apple explains exactly how they are tracking us? But this really does not feel like a natural extension of "we value your privacy", which is something Apple recently said.
This sounds like a genuinely useful technology that people will take for granted in the future.
If it's typical Apple form, there will be a basic, free, service and a 99p a month plan with enhancements.
Someone already checked this beacon thingy is already in Apple Card?
I doubt it as it would need a power supply.
Just let me “leash” my damn phone to my watch. The most obvious feature ever. If my watch disconnects from my phone ALERT me as I likely JUST left my phone somewhere.
Tile is so unreliable and sucks so much power in the background, I cannot wait for these things to come out.
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So disable it if you want.
Apple puts out a report regularly detailing how data is protected on iOS. Here's the latest.
Of course it all comes down to Apple's honesty but I'm OK for now. Given all the other ways we are tracked Apple seems pretty benign.
I, for one, am shocked people don't walk down to the creek with a washboard to do their laundry anymore - how is everyone in such a hurry that they can't spend 6 hours doing their laundry? This generation is so technologically dependent they can't even read a sundial, pathetic.
Many years ago I looked at electronically tagging kids to help prevent driveway and swimming pool tragedies but suitable technology was not available. Apple's possible device might just do the trick as it would not need special infrastructure. Reliability could be an issue, as well as battery life.
Escaped pets is another possible use.
Escaped pets is another possible use.
Tile finally have a swappable battery after a few years of complaints, Apple better not be making a throwaway version and still call themselves green
I misplace my iPhone in the house from time to time... and then I hit the iPhone finder button on my Apple Watch, and the phone goes "ping!" - makes in insanely easy to find.
But, yeah, this could be a good thing. And Apple is pretty much the only major consumer electronics company I'd trust to implement it in a way that isn't creepy or easily exploitable by governments or black hats.
