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'Finder for AirPods' App Can Help You Track Down a Missing AirPod [Update: App Removed From App Store]

dan110 said:
You must live alone.
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The remote stays in the one area. Simple. Everyone can keep up with that straightforward notion. Only sea life move and hide remotes amongst the coral or in clam shells.
[doublepost=1483745733][/doublepost]Colder, colder, warmer, your getting near... (App guides users into unsafe territory ala Pokemon go style).
 
smacrumon said:
The remote stays in the one area. Simple. Everyone can keep up with that straightforward notion. Only sea life move and hide remotes amongst the coral or in clam shells.
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Our remote sits on an armrest between the four armchairs in the room where we watch movies. Someone bumps into a chair in the dark, it slips off, and it's gone. A kid in the family visits, he touches it, and it's gone. Then I find it like a month later, often inside the inner workings of one of the chairs. Not much we can do about it without using adhesives.
 
Version 2,0 incorporates GPS. "It's fallen into the main sewer!"
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sudo1996 said:
Our remote sits on an armrest between the four armchairs in the room where we watch movies. Someone bumps into a chair in the dark, it slips off, and it's gone. A kid in the family visits, he touches it, and it's gone. Then I find it like a month later, often inside the inner workings of one of the chairs. Not much we can do about it without using adhesives.
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No no no, sits on the armrest is wrong wrong wrong. Quick! Somebody bring in the velcro adhesive and help this good person!
 
smacrumon said:
The remote stays in the one area. Simple. Everyone can keep up with that straightforward notion. Only sea life move and hide remotes amongst the coral or in clam shells.
[doublepost=1483745733][/doublepost]Colder, colder, warmer, your getting near... (App guides users into unsafe territory ala Pokemon go style).
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I wish it was this simple......

About two weeks into new tv's, you gotta run up the stairs because the downstairs remote was lost :eek: I'm about to stick a tile on the thing.

This App seems pretty useful though, will def download it once I get my AirPods! + If you were in a crappy place and lost the AirPod it stands to reason that you'll have to face it again to get it back :p
 
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I think its safe to say, under Steve Jobs' Apple, this app would have been available, by Apple, on launch day. And that's entirely because the details were always thought through. Past learning (ie, find my phone app) would have been employed and put into action for this new product. No half baked goodies. The real deal.
 
smacrumon said:
I think its safe to say, under Steve Jobs' Apple, this app would have been available, by Apple, on launch day. And that's entirely because the details were always thought through. Past learning (ie, find my phone app) would have been employed and put into action for this new product. No half baked goodies. The real deal.
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It took quite a while for MobileMe to become better......
 
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vertsix said:
Make
Apple
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Again!
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Available in 11" ..ups, sorry, scratch that. Available in 12" and 13", the extra expensive version, which is 15" is available in "space grey" - whatever the heck that is, oh and also with the chin of the next el presidente:

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But to stay on topic - I am absolutely bewildered that Apple isn't offering this in their "Find my iPhone" (which they could rename to Find my devices or something to that effect), especially since they'll stand to loose a lot of goodwill, and frankly, they can't afford to loose much more
 
Looks like Apple pulled the app already (which is good), it's not showing in the developer's list of apps in the App Store anymore. Also, talk about way too many 'Finder' apps that could all be accomplished under one app; this is another example of why the App Store is so bloated:

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ip67 said:
Looks like Apple pulled the app already (which is good)
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Yeah. It seems I was wrong and it has been pulled. Not good actually. Are they also pulling their own apple tv remote app, thereby likewise forcing people to buy replacement remotes? No of course not! Double standard there.

Anyway, I'm glad I got it just in time. And I backed it up too.

But for those less fortunate to not have got it yet does this mean it will only be available now if you jailbreak? Maybe. That's terrible.
 
tywebb13 said:
Yeah. It seems I was wrong and it has been pulled. Not good actually. Are they pulling their own apple tv remote app, thereby likewise forcing people to buy replacement remotes? No of course not! Double standard there.
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It is good because it was unreliable and it used Apple's marketing images, and not to mention Apple could stand to clean up the App Store even more based on that screenshot in my above post.
 
ip67 said:
It is good because it was unreliable and it used Apple's marketing images, and not to mention Apple could stand to clean up the App Store even more based on that screenshot in my above post.
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If those were the reasons then I think these issues could be overcome and theoretically it could be re-released.

But I think it was pulled for other reasons, namely that this is an app which apple should have made - but didn't.
 
sudo1996 said:
And Ping :D
But hey, at least he showed that he cared about the products. I can't imagine Tim Cook saying "Can anyone tell me what MobileMe is supposed to do? [...] Then why the f*** doesn't it do that?"
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True I had it and the finding phone function worked, but he really did polish it up with find my iPhone and other services. I just can't stand the constant defending him, he was a great CEO, but he had his share of missteps, including when he and Ive ignored engineers when releasing the iPhone 4 for design reasons.
 
Don't need this, I have cats.

Daughter lost her new Nintendo's stylus last week and refused to look for it after only fifteen minutes of searching. I asked her why she gave up looking for it so soon. She said if she waits, one of the cats is sure to find it for her. True enough, a few days later, a cat found it and was batting it into the kitchen, where many lost cat-battable items end up. We intercepted the cat before the stylus could end up under the fridge.

My husband just got a new set of Airpods yesterday. I can see them being very appealing to cats. If they ever go missing I will watch the cats and look under the fridge...or the piano.
 
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It's been out since Jan. 3 but only now is it attracting attention from tech news sites. Maybe that's another reason it is getting pulled now instead of Jan. 3.

Ironically if it weren't for these tech news articles I would never have got the app!
[doublepost=1483757651][/doublepost]Actually I have some more information on why this has been pulled. I contacted the developer who responded with the reason:

"Apple did not like the ‘concept’ of people finding their Airpods and deemed it ‘not appropriate for the App Store’. The app will not return back on the App Store."

I see that macrumors have now included this new information in their news article.

What a terrible attitude from apple!

If you lose them they just want you to buy more?

No. I say if you lose them and were not fortunate enough to get this app, then just buy one of their competitors similar products instead!
 
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dictoresno said:
Maybe they removed it because they want to or are currently working on implementing this exact thing.
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But that contradicts apple's reason for puliing it:

"Apple did not like the ‘concept’ of people finding their Airpods and deemed it ‘not appropriate for the App Store’. The app will not return back on the App Store."

Maybe you are right though which would mean apple are lying.
 
dwfaust said:
Well, it's an interesting concept, but $4 seems like a lot of cash for an generally hit or miss "you're getting warmer, now you're getting colder" type of "solution"... not sure how to make it better, but $4? Not going to burn that much on a non-solution.

Heck, put the charge case in your pocket and return the earpod to the case when you take it off. Problem solved for free.
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$4 plus a decent chance of locating the AirPod > paying $69 for not finding it at all

Cheap insurance that will pay for itself after one use, so long as it's successful. Even if it does a better job telling you where it isn't as opposed to where it is, even that helps eliminate locations. You still need to do the legwork but it increases your chances. Not much better than findmyiphone. It's not precise down to the foot. But gives you a generally great roughy idea where it is and where it isn't.
 
tywebb13 said:
But that contradicts apple's reason for puliing it:

"Apple did not like the ‘concept’ of people finding their Airpods and deemed it ‘not appropriate for the App Store’. The app will not return back on the App Store."

Maybe you are right though which would mean apple are lying.
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That's a silly reason as it mimics apples own findmyiphone app. There has to be a more specific reason behind the smoke and mirrors. They've done an about face on things like this before. Wouldn't surprise me if they allow it again.
 
So the app is gone? But where?

Perhaps we need a new app called 'Finder for Finder for Airpods'.
 
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dictoresno said:
That's a silly reason as it mimics apples own findmyiphone app. There has to be a more specific reason behind the smoke and mirrors. They've done an about face on things like this before. Wouldn't surprise me if they allow it again.
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Yeah. It's a very silly reason. They don't like people finding lost airpods? Well who cares what they like or don't like? Once you buy them they are YOUR airpods, not apple's. It should be up to you whether you want to find them or not, not apple.
 
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tywebb13 said:
Yeah. It's a very silly reason. They don't like people finding lost airpods? Well who cares what they like or don't like? Once you buy them they are YOUR airpods, not apple's. It should be up to you whether you want to find them or not, not apple.
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I think it's just a very generic explanation. The real reason is probably something more specific. Time will tell.
 
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