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Prosser Renders 'Actual' AirTags Design, Will 'Likely' Be Announced Tomorrow
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If it was apparent, why ask if I eat ‘humanely’ killed animals.
FWIW, humane killed is an oxymoron.
Apple Maps does this now. I believe it does it automatically. If not, just drop a pin when you park.
If your car gets stolen, that’s when the tag will help you.
In the meantime, do what my Sister has done for years.
Get a car locator app
She works for Boeing and parking is a nightmare
She often gets to work when dark & always a different massive lot and/or parking spot.
A few times it took her an hour to find where she parked, until she got a find my car app
Then she had to get in habit to 'arm' it when she parked
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Thank you.
I've tried Apple Maps. It gets me close but not close enough in a sea of cars. Hoping these AirTags get to a closer range.
A couple of things...
Is there any expectation that AirTags would be usable in the Home app?
It might be the ultimate in laziness, but here is one possible AirTag use case: I have a garage door opener that is HomeKit compatible. I was thinking that it might be cool to keep an AirTag in my car and have an automation set up in the Home app such that when my car returns to within, say, 150 ft (geofence) of my garage, the garage door automatically opens.
Another potentially use of keeping an AirTag in your car, is that if your car is ever stolen, you'd know exactly where it is located in the FindMy app.
Is there any expectation that AirTags would be usable in the Home app?
It might be the ultimate in laziness, but here is one possible AirTag use case: I have a garage door opener that is HomeKit compatible. I was thinking that it might be cool to keep an AirTag in my car and have an automation set up in the Home app such that when my car returns to within, say, 150 ft (geofence) of my garage, the garage door automatically opens.
Another potentially use of keeping an AirTag in your car, is that if your car is ever stolen, you'd know exactly where it is located in the FindMy app.
I would expect the iPhone to be able locate itself more accurately than the tags. Unless the tag has a GPS chip which remains to be seen.
Does your car key have a panic button on it? (I have to mash mine several times to make it do something intentionally. But I can have it in my pocket and set it off with very little effort.) 🤷🏻♂️
I don’t think the point of this is for car tracking at all. I was responding for people that DON’T understand the tech (as clearly there are a few in this thread). Apologies if I got you mixed up in my responses.
It’ll be great for to glue onto some of my rarely used tools, however.
Yes, but if there’s anyone walking by with an IOS device it’s going to be super accurate. It doesn’t need GPS when that’s being provided by literally ANY iPhone within signal, and that GPS location will be uploaded to you. Unless the car moves again or you live in an area utterly devoid of iphones it’s going to be accurate.
Get ready to get disappointed tomorrow. No iPhones tomorrow
I have a feeling Tiles will be going out of the business soon. See you later.
Tile works on Android.
The difference between “Bluetooth tracker” and AirTags are that Apple can employ a passive network of hundreds of millions of iPhones to find your lost keys, something that the other companies can’t. That’s a game changer.
I predict tomorrow’s “One More Thing” is going to be the Apple Unicycle.
(My overall predictions record isn’t much worse than Prosser’s.)
Have they fixed the problem with their App and devices that would occasionally cause your other bluetooth devices to go crazy? I never found them to be reliable in that regard.
Ironically one of the things that would I need this the most with is my AirPods Pro, which is unfeasible to be attached together with an AirTag.
Honestly AirPods should just have this technology built-in. At least the charging case. I guess it will at some point...
Honestly AirPods should just have this technology built-in. At least the charging case. I guess it will at some point...
Plus I can see it now:
AirTag $49.99
Leather pouch for mounting $499.99
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$549.98 Tag is $49.99 and leather pouch $499.99
As much play as MacRumors gives Prosser, they should put him on staff and be done with it already.
The guy acts like a clown, won’t admit when he has been wrong, and MacRumors continues to promote his verbal diarrhea.
If you need to post more rumor articles, look for a trustworthy adult. The Prosserites will be mad at my comments but, so be it.
The guy acts like a clown, won’t admit when he has been wrong, and MacRumors continues to promote his verbal diarrhea.
If you need to post more rumor articles, look for a trustworthy adult. The Prosserites will be mad at my comments but, so be it.
And even just besides cruelty, something with a lower carbon cost built in. I can see how leather is useful for durable good like belts and breathable things like shoes -- but for a little bag to hold a bottle cap-sized thing? Could just as easily be recycled fabric for all it matters.
People said the same thing about the Spanish Inquisition.
Even more fun, if someone jacks your car and that person has an iPhone, you can use the GPS in their own phone to track them down. How cool is that?
Attach it to your watch, then send it by airmail across the country and track it. I think that's their idea.
This isn't a bad idea actually, especially since all AirTags will look identical it wouldn't be hard to swap them.
It wouldn't need to constantly go off everytime you're near someone elses' tag, only if there's one that seems to be present in multiple locations. I suppose you'd need to teach it who your friends, family and usual acquaintances are, but that seems a reasonable step to take.
Still thinking as I type, I'd guess that Apple has encrypted the identity on these, so there may not be an easy way to know who owns a tag that isn't yours unless you've shared identity information through Find My.
If the AirTags look like this new render, I’ll need one or two to try out. If, however, they look like those old Mentos/mint renders that MacRumors was using, I’ll need a bag of them.
But on the flip side, how soon until criminals make a black market app to detect the Tags, so they can either skip the car or find and remove the Tag
Apple (and the police) can track it back to the stalker so it's a very risky thing to do, they would be providing the evidence directly.
And all working Bluetooth devices are easily found with an iPhone app, especially Apple airtags.
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Get ready to get disappointed tomorrow. No iPhones tomorrow
I have a feeling Tiles will be going out of the business soon. See you later.
Interesting point of view.
Seeing how "Tiles" are cross compatible with both Apple and Android phones,
And Android has, I believe about an 87 percent share in worldwide phone sales,
I'd be interested by the logic behind this viewpoint.