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Did thieves ever use Tile trackers for this purpose? They've been around for years.

Or were they simply not popular enough to be useful for this?

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Sure it never happen with Tile, Apple is the evil behind every human disaster ( LOL ). Or may be this kind of news only appear when Apple is involved because somebody could benefit from it. It happens with so many devices that have lots of problems but you never hear about them ( and many as expensive or more than Apple counterparts ). You know, it's cool to say today that Apple it's a mess ( and it is sometimes, but not much more than the competition ).
 
Airtags warn you when they are traveling with you, so that was nice of the thieves to let the police know where they will commit a crime. Good job apple, airtags are great
 
How does a company over reaching their rights prove anything?

So you think a judge or jury is going to acquit someone who is selling and distributing software that they've hacked just because they purchased, say, a single-user license? ? Last time I checked, software piracy is illegal, and software companies are well within their rights to pursue litigation.
 
So you think a judge or jury is going to acquit someone who is selling and distributing software that they've hacked just because they purchased, say, a single-user license? ?
Yes. Because when I buy something I have a right to modify and sell it. I don’t get to sell more units than I paid for, but I do have rights to sell the ones I purchased.
 
Not sure what the factory warranty has to do with it, but here's some info behind the label "muscle car":

I have a '67 Mustang. Might know what a muscle car is. The muscle car era is gone. These new vehicles aren't muscle cars by anyones definition but those that own them and want to make themselves sound cool.
 
The car example is only the tip of the iceberg, you could hide a AirTag on almost anything. Want to track your spouse, kids, neighbors, employees seems like a lot is possible. Soon you won’t know who following who. :D
You can already track family members with location tracking features offered by cell providers, and employees can be tackled within an office based on which WAPs they connect to with their mobile tracking device... errr... phone.
 
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Where are the articles about someone placing their phone in a hard to see spot and using technology to track where their phone is...? Like in the movies or when I'm trying to track the phone... yeah, tracking devices have been around for a while. This makes for headlines and good click-bait, but thieves aren't now all of a sudden figuring out how to track because of AirTags.
 
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In the near future, AirTags will be for finding items in your house and that's about it. Seems like the legal ramifications will be more than Apple will want to deal with.
 
Yes. Because when I buy something I have a right to modify and sell it. I don’t get to sell more units than I paid for, but I do have rights to sell the ones I purchased.

Uh, yeah, that's the whole point - you don't own the software itself, but rather a license to install and use it. And you may or may not be able to sell that license. For example, with some subscription-based software you can't transfer the license to another user account.
 
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