Better yet is a tracker with wireless charging. Then it can be made very small and sealed (watertight). Just pop it on your charging pad once every few months.
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Apple's Rumored Tile Competitor May Offer ARKit and Leashing Capabilities
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Better yet is a tracker with wireless charging. Then it can be made very small and sealed (watertight). Just pop it on your charging pad once every few months.
So..... If a phone can be tracked and accessed while it is off, it isnt actually off, right? Most expect that turning a phone "off" completely stops the flow of electrons from the battery, through the circuitry and back to the battery.
This is the complaint.
What's next? Forced OTA updates when the phone is "off"?
Lacking control of the most basic functions of our devices is essentially the manufacturer saying that we dont actually own the device.
I noticed that Bluetooth stays on in airplane mode when wearing a health monitoring device now.
I imagine someday Bluetooth will be an always-on service on all Apple products.
As far as tiles, I've been using the five-below traxxit device. It works pretty good and alerts you when phone and tile are parted. You can also mute the tile when you close the app but search for the tile later on with the app. Batteries are replaceable.
I imagine someday Bluetooth will be an always-on service on all Apple products.
As far as tiles, I've been using the five-below traxxit device. It works pretty good and alerts you when phone and tile are parted. You can also mute the tile when you close the app but search for the tile later on with the app. Batteries are replaceable.
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I don’t think your phone can be tracked while it is off anyway - they said while it is asleep.
... you edit your post so you don’t look so foolish. Even though others have already quoted it lol.
Gonna suck when the federal government can track the location of my kid’s lunch bag.
when a casual internet joke becomes the illest new feature in a decade.. lol
#daretodream
I know of older people who should be wise from Life's follies, but they are still as complacent and naive as an inexperienced kid.
MAN I could've used this about a month ago when my MacBook Pro and iPad were stolen out of my car. The crook was apparently smart enough to turn them off or something because Find My iPhone never showed them. Thankfully I'm pretty confident in data security because I have tried to reinstall iOS on my sister's iPad after she forgot her password and OH MY THAT IS NOT POSSIBLE WITHOUT CALLING APPLE. I'm out whatever dollars, but at least the ******* who stole that stuff is probably sitting with fancy aluminum and glass bricks.
Apparently you don't hear very well. The issue is laziness. Specifically mental laziness. It's one thing if your tech toy is a convenience. It's another if it's a crutch.
What is cool about the Tile is it is crowd sourced.
So if your stolen bike with a Tile on it can be located by someone else's phone app announcing where the bike was
So if your stolen bike with a Tile on it can be located by someone else's phone app announcing where the bike was
Like another poster said, doubt it’ll be as big as AirPods, but Tile can’t be happy about Apple entering their business. Since a lot of people have no clue what Tile is, on iOS, Apple will most likely quickly gobble up much of Tile’s market share. On Android, it could be interesting — perhaps some users looking for alternatives to this new product they’ve never heard of will find that one has been available for quite some time.
And for what it’s worth, the median lead time for press invites under Tim Cook’s tenure has been 11 days. That’d put it at Friday (not impossible, but Apple, like many companies, usually doesn’t like sharing news on Fridays unless it’s bad news). The shortest lead time for an iPhone event under Cook’s tenure has been 7 days for October 2011 and September 2012, followed by 9 days for September 2016. That’d put it at Tuesday and Sunday, respectively. Think it’s safe to say we won’t see invites on Sunday.
Somewhat surprised they didn’t send invites today to drown out the Siri grading statement, though, as a big “Look, shiny!” to the press.
For the past two September events, the invites went out a week before the Thursday preceding the event. If that pattern holds, we’ll see them tomorrow.
And for what it’s worth, the median lead time for press invites under Tim Cook’s tenure has been 11 days. That’d put it at Friday (not impossible, but Apple, like many companies, usually doesn’t like sharing news on Fridays unless it’s bad news). The shortest lead time for an iPhone event under Cook’s tenure has been 7 days for October 2011 and September 2012, followed by 9 days for September 2016. That’d put it at Tuesday and Sunday, respectively. Think it’s safe to say we won’t see invites on Sunday.
Somewhat surprised they didn’t send invites today to drown out the Siri grading statement, though, as a big “Look, shiny!” to the press.
Yeah, it's kinda like insurance in that way. I just hope it's not like Tile where you had to subscribe to get new devices because the battery wasn't replaceable. I think they've stopped doing that, though, at least for some of the Tiles.
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I think this could be useful for sowing into my kid's favorite toy. They each have one toy they absolutely need before they can fall asleep and that's pretty much the only thing we regularly lose that takes a long time to find.
I don’t know anyone, older or younger, who never loses anything. Not sure it’s related in any way to wisdom, complacency or naivete but of course some are more perfect than others.
This will be crowd sourced by hundreds of million iPhones... game over for Tile
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Read this, I think Apple has done something really great here.
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-find-my-cryptography-bluetooth/
yea, def not paying a monthly for this feature. it's not like this guarantees that you will get your item back - it may already be on a plane to eastern europe
It is much worse than that. Nationwide, an average of 38 kids die each year in hot cars because parents forget they have their CHILDREN in the back seat. There is now a tile type device called eClip that alerts parents on their phone when they leave an infant or toddler in the car. https://www.fatherly.com/gear/best-car-seat-alarms/
I sooo want Apple to release their version of Tile. I think it would change the world, but only if there is no subscription fee and the iFindDevices were affordable. There's so many things this could be used for... elderly parents, kids, pets, valuable possessions.
If the manufacturing of these devices become dirt cheap it could even be used for packages. I've mailed out so many packages with tracking through USPS and they got lost, so the tracking system is kind of a joke.
The privacy issues that this can bring up is huge, but I trust Apple and that they will do the right thing.
If the manufacturing of these devices become dirt cheap it could even be used for packages. I've mailed out so many packages with tracking through USPS and they got lost, so the tracking system is kind of a joke.
The privacy issues that this can bring up is huge, but I trust Apple and that they will do the right thing.
Read the article I linked above... I think they have that handled. Zero privacy issues
I don't use Tile and I wasn't aware of the provision in the EULA that they shared your location data. That is a deal breaker for me, if I were in the market for such a device, I would definitely avoid Tile. However, I am very interested in Apple's version. I would love to put one on each of my bikes in case any of them were ever to be stolen.
Because of their small size and likely affordability, I could see these type of devices being abused for covertly spying on people (i.e. epoxy a strong magnet on one and stick it to the underside of someone's car to find out where they live).
I’m almost 50, I use to have a keychain that beeped when I clapped when I was in High school. This has nothing to do with screens and generations but rather people.