Tile CEO: 'We Welcome Competition From Apple, But We Think It Needs to Be Fair'

[deevey]

Well, it’s hard to provide a platform with good guidelines and tools to allow developers to write good software without jumping thru hoops, especially for power constraint mobile devices. If it’s easy we would have seen a lot of alternative platforms. It takes years of investment and hard work.

For arguably what's was THE most powerful company on the planet back then it should have been a walk in the park. Just one of the many balls Microsoft dropped back then while slinging crap at walls.

 

[quarkysg]

For arguably what's was THE most powerful company on the planet back then it should have been a walk in the park. Just one of the many balls Microsoft dropped back then while slinging crap at walls.

Well, IMHO Microsoft got to where they are by being a good enough alternative, not for being good. IMHO, not many of Microsoft’s original or first version product is good. The original 1984 Mac basically layed the blueprint for them to grow to what they are today.

 

[kby]

I don't know about whether Apple has an unfair competitive advantage or not. What I do know is I was an earlier adopter of Tiles and gave up on them after poor performance issues and how it interfered with my regular bluetooth operations. So for me, Tile competed against itself, and lost. I picked up some airtags and much prefer them. So I see why Tile is scared. Stop giving money to lawyers Tile, start investing in making a better product.

I did get Tile once after many many tries to change a feature for me. I did not like it when they added reverse ring (since Find my… did that) and Tile’s reverse ring went off too easily in the wrong situation (such as on stage in a community orchestra concert reading my music on the iPad Pro). It took a number of times to get that done, but they finally did. However, I agree that they have gone downhil. I’ve been on the app beta test and it has repeatedly crashed mostly when the device wakes up. Two updates ago it crashed repeatedly upon installation snd launched. now it’s just back to frequent regular crashes, still true after many beta updates. I want to hear airbags first in real life to see if they are loud enough. Since U1 is the one whizzy new feature that’s NOT in the iPad Pro, I have no device for precision finding at the moment snd probably won’t for another year or so.

 

[justin0712]

So, Apple’s misfortune is that they lucked up created a platform that people enjoy using and feel comfortable purchasing through. Even though they’re only 20 to 30% of the market, it’s their OWN fault their customers purchase more than other mobile OS customers. If only they hadn’t been so focused on making great products, they wouldn’t be considered a target of punishment now.

Maybe that’s why other companies don’t approach Apple’s level of quality and user friendliness. They know that if your customers are valuable, people will use any means to try to get access to them. That’s way easier than trying to build your own success.

I was merely stating that Apple users generally spend more than their counterparts. Nothing more nothing less. I never said it was a bad thing. All it means is Apple has created a great ecosystem that people will spend money on after the device purchase. Most companies would clamor for even 1% of that revenue we generate.