If I find an AirTag on my car, is there a way to give it a factory reset? ie. Get me a free AirTag.? I'd be tempted to get myself a nice car so I can start collecting AirTags from car thieves.?
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Muscle Car Owner Targeted With Hidden AirTag Placed by Thieves
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Not really, but in either case they have no right to dictate how something is used. If they think they do than it’s important they be corrected.
Similar thing is happening near the border-just with gps trackers.
You travel to Mexico, while your car is parked, drug dealers put drugs and tracker under your car. You go back to California/Texas and at some point cartel members come retrieve the tracker and drugs. Happened to an employee. Police said leave the tracker, drive to the nearest border checkpoint and at that point we will remove the tracker-giving the appearance the drugs were confiscated. It's happening quite often without the victim ever knowing.
Our employee just happen to catch the drug dealers under his car as he was leaving for work-he thought they were stealing his catalytic converters. Somehow managed to scare them off and looked under the car to see a few kilos and the tracker.
This is really good. The system not only notifies the person being tracked but he can also play a sound on the AirTag to help him find it in hidden spots. Hope all thieves use AirTags instead of alternatives.
The Android app doesn't report if you're being tracked. It requires you to manually open the app and run a scan to see if there are any nearby trackers.
They certainly have the right to communicate how they intend it for it to be used. You can try to use it for something other than what they intended it to be used for, but it's not Apple's responsibility to make it work for that purpose.
not that I recall seeing. LOL another instance where the popularity of Apple is in full force! Nobody cared about trackers until the AirTags came out.
No, it's not like that at all, as obviously both of those things are legitimate, endorsed uses of their product. It's like you buying a sub-compact car and trying to tow a large trailer with it. Can you do it? Possibly, but a lot of things could go wrong since the car was never designed to do so, and you can't blame the manufacturer if it fails.
Is anyone saying Apple should (or thinks they should) actively try to prevent people from using AirTags for purposes other than they were designed for (EDIT: I'm referring to legal things, not stalking)? I haven't seen anyone say that. What I have seen is I and others simply pointing out that Apple did not design these to be anti-theft devices, because it seems some people are under the faulty impression that this was one of the uses they were marketed for.
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Article details what? It doesn’t provide any reason not to allow your device to be part of the network. Nor is there actually any evidence it has been used to track people OR cars for the purpose of stealing them.
The feature warning someone has an AirTag placed near you is a pretty stupid tool for potential thieves. They should use tile, or an actual tracking device.
I can. It might not be a good idea but the manufacture has no right to tell me I can’t use it in some way. There is a difference between saying they won’t warranty unintended use and actively preventing it.
Tesla's are rarely stolen as it's so hard to steel them due to the way you access them, not because they are specifically EV's.
A lot of vehicles were being stolen thanks to relatively simple relay attacks, Tesla was never susceptible to this.
485 hp of V8 power. Seems pretty muscle car to me.
Of course they have the right to prevent alternative uses. They're the ones who made them.
Actually, yes they do have the right to tell you not to use it in a certain way. For example, plastic bag manufacturers state that the bag is not to be used as a toy. Or silica gel packs say to not eat them. Just read any product documentation to discover a bunch of statements about how you shouldn't do x or y with the product.
That's not the same as them actively preventing you from doing so.
Now of course this is more about physical goods. As we all know, it's common in the world of software for companies to actively seek to prevent unauthorized use of their software, because it's a licensed product (i.e. you don't own the software itself).
No, this isn’t true. This is the sort of falsehood that makes people think cracking drm is illegal. It’s not.
Apple allowing third parties to be notified of tracking is Apple preventing them from being used as wished by the owner of the product.
to your comment? the one that everyone is pointing out you did not read?
let me quote the important bit:
"apple needs to make an airtag tracking app for android to alert"
here's the "full" answer you dont want but are going to get:
the only person or entity on earth that *needs* to do anything is you, because you need to read before you comment, expecting that what you have to say is more important that what has already been said.
which already includes reference to the android apple has already made for this purpose.
that you continue to ignore because you just want to feel dignified and right, even when you are wrong.
That's not Apple's problem, nor was it ever their problem.