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Samsung's $30 SmartTags Beat AirTags to Launch
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As the post says - imminent hence not launched or teased or shown or demoed.
A monopoly in that market where Apple has launched zero product at the time of this writing? If the phone market is any indicator then this won’t be anywhere close to a monopoly either.
You could probably go the whole way back to LoJack, possibly even farther back than that!
A cheap replaceable throw away battery compared to an expensive throw away device (I'm looking at you AirPods) is quite compelling if the battery life is long enough.
Having a Tile on my keychain, and the MagSafe wallet on the back of my phone has pretty much ended the frantic, almost daily “WHERE IS MY ****??” situation that was a part of my life for years whenever I went anywhere.
No more “OK. I know I put my wallet on the coffee table, and hung my keys by the door when I got home last night. How in the hell did my keys end up in my Nintendo Switch dock, and my wallet in the top of the toilet bowl?”
I misplaced those two things so often, I started to think my apartment had a bored Poltergeist playing pranks on me.
By your logic, Apple copied Samsung because Samsung created a smartphone before Apple, right?
No. A company doesn't have to be first in order to be copied by someone. You completely failed to understand my point but thanks for the effort.
From what others posted so far Samsung has been making tiles since 2012. We have exactly zero knowledge about what additional inspiration they have taken from an unreleased product of Apple.
Samsung is a huge corporation. Electronics is just a part. They do things like build ships (2nd largest), Insurance, building and construction, retail, hotels, etc.
Good. Now we don’t have to watch them copy every feature from scratch and advertise about including a charging cable. The trash can have their copycat tech starting from day one.
stupid comment. "who is first" (which isn't Tile anyways) is not the point.
Samsung has priced this so cheaply they care nothing about making money and it’s not even elegantly designed and doesn’t support UWB which means they have no confidence in their own products.
This will be 5.00 in a year at a yard sale. A autographed picture of Lindsay Graham will sell more than this.
This will be 5.00 in a year at a yard sale. A autographed picture of Lindsay Graham will sell more than this.
😂 omg I really wasn’t prepared for that visual.
The Arguments are so silly in this thread. Who cares who is the first, it’s about who implements the best product to execute its functionality where it matters most to the consumer. Samsung usually is ahead of Apple in a lot of products, but it doesn’t make their products ‘better’ over Apple, it’s all about the implementation. There’s a lot of people in this thread who don’t seem to understand that.
Yep. There’s a reason we’ve been hearing rumors about Airtags “imminent” launch for over a year and only Apple knows why they haven’t yet. Could be good or it could be bad. Let’s see when Apple lays those cards on the table.
