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Samsung's $30 SmartTags Beat AirTags to Launch
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Sounds to me like you didn't watch the event or even read the article. Samsung's UWB tags have a later release date.
As for "beating Apple to market" this is Samsung's 3rd pair of tags. The first was way back in 2012.
Agree, but please don't do the stereotypical thing and say men are bad and woman are victims.
There are a lot, and I mean a LOT of crazy females out there, and many mean are not taken seriously when they have problems.
My guess is that airtags loses a lot of its value when people are not able to travel. As such, it’s not so much that airtags aren’t physically ready for sale much as Apple is waiting for the right narrative surrounding them.
It was a nothing burger. If you have noticed, Apple always brings up some product or service whenever a Galaxy S or Galaxy Note is launched.
But Tile will only file an anti-competitive suit against Apple, even tho Samsung’s was released first.
Lawsuit Judge: “I’m curious why you guys (Tile) are suing Apple, when Samsung’s obviously came out first to market (before Apple) many weeks ago.”
Tile: “That’s simple your honor. Samsung’s implementation is zero threat to us, no one cares about it. But Apple’s airtags product will stand out as the new gold standard, they will do it better than we can ever dream of, eventually making our product irrelevant. We are asking $5 trillion your honor.”
wondering if this could be taped to the underside of a suspects car so they could be tracked anywhere
Just so they could beat out Apple to the market, who cares if it's a sub-standard product. Honestly, if I were to buy this, it better point me to the exact corner I decided to put my keys at... not a general "in the apartment somewhere". (I am not sure even Air Tags will be able to do that though)
Oh yeah Apple is dragging their feet. 🙄. They're only busy innovating new M-series and A-series processors, working on three OS's and turning out new products for Samsung to rip them off on.
Just because a company isn't "first" doesn't mean they are dragging their feet. What a stupid notion. Could it be that they are still perfecting the product? See Samsung got theirs out first because they're not busy innovating. When you copy it's easy to be first.
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The point being some people are upset Samsung copied an unpatented idea from apple.
The point being some people are upset Samsung copied an unpatented idea from apple.
Exactly my point. They don't set their own path. They look at what Apple is doing and try to earn a quick buck by being first, whether it's indirectly through brownie PR points or rumors setting the trends thereby increasing demand for a similar product.
Apple is simply looking at what UX they can improve and focus their energy on that. Of course, then they charge the ton for that solution.
The Samsung SM5 came out in 1998. They still make cars as part of Renault Samsung Motors in South Korea.
samsung throws spaghetti against the wall to see what sticks, screwing users in the process.
Someone already posted already earlier about Samsung connect, circa 2017.
This copying faff is a bit silly.
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No, not really.
Your point, Samsung are copying Apple.
"whenever someone says "Samsung doesn't copy Apple", just point them to this and a bunch of other examples in the past. Samsung copies Apple. Plain and simple."
The reality is although they were not first, they certainly weren't copying Apple.
Do Samsung copy Apple? Oh no doubt, but not this time.
