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Chipolo Takes Dig at AirTags When Advertising ONE Spot Item Tracker: 'No Accessory Needed'
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No UWB, no thanks. BT is so 1990s.
Loving all the "but it has no hole" moans! It's the new "notch."
Loving all the "but it has no hole" moans! It's the new "notch."
Yeah I see this more as a selling point. I don’t prefer the hole feels less secure to me as someone who is rough with their keys. I don’t know if I’d call this a jab.
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Shameful you have to buy a dongle loop for AirTag to attach to something while preaching being green.
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Shameful you have to buy a dongle loop for AirTag to attach to something while preaching being green.
I would - I don't want a hole in mine - I don't use keyrings. I like it the way it is.
I mean what would have been cool is if they just did this about 5 years ago with the Apple Watch and iBeacons, i've been waiting all this time with only 40% battery used a day but still...no sign of it. Maybe with UWB in the next one they might do something, if you have HomePod minis in every room (which i'd be willing to invest in if it meant very accurate room to room tracking which is currently impossible.
And make it that much bigger? No thanks.
Besides, Apple's much larger market share also ensures there will be accessories at every price point and for every conceivable purpose/taste. This means we get to individualize AirPods in a way that Tile owners couldn't, and we never need to spend more than we want.
This is a joke, right?
AirTag is bigger than a CR2032 battery… so have a guess where you could put a hole… that’s right, in the centre, through the middle of the battery. A simple fact to understand! 😂 *
*heavy sarcasm. Of course the hole could be at the edge of the AirTag, where there is no battery.
I wouldn't be surprised if Apple encouraged this line of advertising as it takes the heat off Apple from an anti-trust/monopoly POV.
We need more information about the anti stalking feature or I don’t buy airtags.
if someone steal my bike/cat/purse I don’t want him to know about it immediately this is ridiculous.
also thieves will adapt and put stolen item in cooling shopping bags so Bluetooth won’t go through.
seems useless until proven efficient to me.
if someone steal my bike/cat/purse I don’t want him to know about it immediately this is ridiculous.
also thieves will adapt and put stolen item in cooling shopping bags so Bluetooth won’t go through.
seems useless until proven efficient to me.
There's no point having a tracker if you cannot precision find your item in your house.
You don’t say! Tile has saved me numerous hours looking for my car keys.
Find My Phone couldn’t precision-track anything inside the house before but yet I’ve used it for a decade now to find my iPhone inside the house.
If you are asking about Tile, yes it can. But you have to pay a subscription fee for that service, and only those who have the Tile app installed can help you track your lost item. But it can also leverage the Android phones if they have the Tile app installed, whereas the Air Tag can provide location tracking via nearby iPhones only.
I may buy an airtag as another way to find my dog if it runs away. There are already accessories being made to attach the airtag to a dog collar.
That is completely useless if you aren't in the room, or if the item speaker is covered.
The most hypocritical aspect is that their entire design aesthetic is Dieter Rams' rounded rectangle, from watches to app icons to screens and windows: nothing is allowed a pass from the round rect rule... except this air tags. Imagine how perfectly that keyhole would fit in the corner of a round rect shape. Shameless.