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It's Possible to Drill a Hole Through an AirTag
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For some reason I'm having flashbacks to the iPhone 7 and people drilling into them thinking it would reveal the headphone jack. 😆
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It is definitely not common. First time it happened to me. Most of the time, they just pass me the product and asked me whether I needed any accessories and have to ask to see the accessories.
That’s why this experience surprised me. Anyway, if I told him to stop, I am sure he would. Was in a good mood and was also distracted by the beauty of the AirPod Max as he was doing the explanation.
Apple products have always been as much about fashion as they are functional. Just as the AirPods and the iPhone notch are unique in their design and are easily recognisable, Apple would like its users to be able to accessorise their airtags and display them in the open, which in turn improves their visibility (essentially amounting to free marketing here).
They are just like Apple Watch bands in this regard, and I believe the ability to customise airtag holders will play an integral role in boosting their uptake.
You know that the housing around is not hollow? It's solid plastic so drilling thru it will not enable any water or dust to get in.
I’d rather bet apple will be fine outside of maybe a couple million dollar settlement payment for “a small batch of affected users”.
Who would in turn likely never buy another Apple notebook again and possibly other devices and will holler about it to everyone they can and potentially influence other people's buying choices. Obviously not going to bankrupt them, especially as the Mac is such a relatively small piece of their pie these days compared to iPhone, but not something that they would want either. In any case, I put very little stock in the "the sky is falling" types that over-analyze these things.
The part I highlighted is so utterly ridiculous. I hope you realize not many people even know or understand what an Airtag is, let alone a thief. They don't have to disable it. If it's beeping they can, you know, remove it from the keyring and toss it in the ocean. What a silly argument.Slapping something like this on my keys (which is one of the very few use cases I have for them, given the fact it lets thieves know its there and allows them to disable it) means just through bulk I am less likely to lose them anyway.
I might as well get a cheap cork keyring so at least if I drop them in deep water, they will float.
Exactly, we as customers need to pay for Apple's marketing. At the very least, Apple should send one of these Airtag holders in the box for free if you want one.
I think I'll buy other tags that are cheaper that do not require accessories to attach to keys. Still, I want to leverage Apple's Find My network as I believe it will be infinitely more useful than Tile's crowdsourced network. I guess I'll have to turn to these Chipolos or whatever they were called and see what they offer. I do not have any need of precision finding, which I believe is exclusive to Airtags?
Yeah that business model of selling a ton of accessories was such a bad idea when you could just have hole..oh wait
Of course they did
And then they weighed up how much the new industry surrounding Airtag's would lose if they did not require a third-party means to attach them.
They literally created thousands of Jobs overnight for lack of a hole.
It could be that too, but I just don't get that about apple design philosophy, designing products that basically HAVE to be kept in cases to be useable.
I still use an iPhone X, and I think it is practically unseable without a case. Why? The thing is so damn slippery, it will easily slip out of any pocket or fall off any surface and I just find it very annoying whenever it's not in a case. Sure it looks beautiful, but I just wish they'd design their products more so they're great to use 'naked' if you want to use them that way.