Newsflash: You are not the center of the universe. Just because YOU don’t need/want something, doesn’t mean other people are the same. I have no doubt I could find things you need or want that would be completely useless to me.
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iFixit Shares AirTag Teardown Revealing 'Impressively Compact' Design Compared to Tile Mate and Galaxy SmartTag
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I’ve used four without a lanyard. Why do I need a lanyard to make them useful?
I will say that Apple definitely played a key role by showing that design mattered, and that more importantly, consumers were willing to pay for good design. I think we can all remember the days of bulky, heavy and uninspiring windows laptop form factors. Conversely, a product like the MacBook Air could only happen because Apple was willing to go the extra mile and rethink what people really wanted in a laptop, rather than just throw every single spec inside.
Apple had the audacity to tell the user - I think this one core experience is worth more than every other feature combined, and they were right!
If not for the MacBook Air, a product category like the ultrabook would never have occurred.
Fast forward to today. We have better looking hardware and better designed software and everyone is better off for it. No more unnecessarily thick laptops just because someone was too afraid to leave out the VGA port.
The PCB is very aesthetically pleasing. The bigger dots look like are IO pins for diagnosis or flashing, so curious what hardware tinkers may discover there. But the smaller mid-sized dots are an interesting choice (not the pinhead sized ones, but those are interesting too.)
Anyone familiar with this style of chip manufacturing? Reminds me a bit of the Microbit:
Hopefully some pictures will emerge of the underside as well!
Anyone familiar with this style of chip manufacturing? Reminds me a bit of the Microbit:
Hopefully some pictures will emerge of the underside as well!
Those just look like test points to me. I think you’re right on the largest ones being I/O for diagnostics or JTAG.
Lanyard? I doubt anyone wants to wear one of these around their neck. Although there appears to be a LOT of folks upset that other folks, that would also never wear one around their neck, aren’t able to wear one around their neck
Lanyard? I doubt anyone wants to wear one of these around their neck. Although there appears to be a LOT of folks upset that other folks, that would also never wear one around their neck, aren’t able to wear one around their neck
Where are the darned earring accessories? One on each ear, I say. That way you can always know where the thing between your ears is.
Is it a great idea to replace an internal battery with slippery, dirty hands? I don’t think so. So Apple forces you to clean your hands first. Some think that’s bad, but it insures you put a clean battery in.
Apple finally makes a product with a replaceable battery, but folks still have to find something to complain about.
tempered glass... wait... sapphireAirTags would look cool in clear plastic!
As beautiful on the inside as on the outside. Steve Jobs would be proud.
This kind of gadget makes people dumber and dumber. If you’re young yet need things like this to track your important things, there’s something wrong with you.
They don’t have a loop because they want you to buy all those overpriced cases.
The glovebox is locked and hidden - they couldn't open it even if they realized it was there. And if they choose to bust through it (why so much effort?) I've got a video recording from several angles of them breaking in + I got an alert and have GPS tracking so police are on the way to bust them anyways.
And if all that fails, I suppose I just reprogram the garage to stop opening for the car and change out my physical locks? Not too hard to get a guy out to do that...
How in the world does this make people dumber? Reading your post on the other hand…
People misplace things. People forget things. People’s things get taken. Lots of reasons for this product. If you don’t need it GREAT don’t buy them.
I think it's hilarious that Creative Electron put an X-ray image of a skull (George Washington's, apparently) on the quarter that's shown in the X-ray image. As if that's what you'd see if you X-rayed a quarter! Bwahaha!
(I mean, the skull is way too big. It's substantially bigger than the guy's head on the actual quarter. Come on, Creative Electron. We need better funny fakes than this.)
(I mean, the skull is way too big. It's substantially bigger than the guy's head on the actual quarter. Come on, Creative Electron. We need better funny fakes than this.)
As you can see from the pictures in this very article, Apple goes way beyond what other companies do in terms of industrial design and clean internal structures. These three products are basically the same generation, yet Apple crams more functionality into a smaller space and still makes it look good inside and out.