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Tile CEO: 'We Welcome Competition From Apple, But We Think It Needs to Be Fair'
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I'm guessing you don't own an Airtag and the article was about one store on Australia making a decision based on nonsense.
They wanna keep they’re app because they think they’re worth the subscription
As Gruber noted, there was once a $150 utility to print spreadsheets sideways. Now it’s an option in the print menu.
Sure I don't, why shall I?
I'm not demented yet to need such gadgets, nor I jump on every shizzle Apple releases.
I'm assuming Tile does not pay a percentage to Apple? I figured the App was free. So why should they get free access to all Apple resources for their product?
They are not. I was deep into the Tile system, they kept getting worse every year, them they started to charge you for the app to make it actually work. I'll stick with Airtags
They will have to pay %, it's just another Apple Mafia approach.
I hope the court sees this...
How exactly are they supposed to do that?
Tile has its own tracking network that they charge for (and rightly so).
Apple has now come in with the Find My network...a forced opt-in anonymous tracking network, that everyone can use, and no one can charge for.
Apple is abusing their position to reduce a paid service to free, by using all of the devices they control in the wild, with no consent from anyone.
The staggering hypocrisy here about what they just released with 14.5 and the prompting and opt-in for users on ad tracking vs. the Find My network which everyone is automatically opted in to is astounding. I wonder how well that would work if people were prompted to allow their device to be used by other people to track things.
Absolutely agree with the Tile CEO. Competition should be fair and a level playing field. Apple likes to present themselves as a wholesome company but in reality they have a nasty underbelly.
For? So its cool if I go in your house and take what I want and use all your stuff for free?
On paper, Tile is a great product. In use, it is terrible. The products themselves feel really cheap and are super ugly. I could look past that if the app was great, but it is not. The one time I misplaced something, the app got stuck refreshing all the tiles in the account and then wouldn't let me search for the item. The whole experience just felt like something that had been duct taped together and was unpleasant enough that the Tiles weren't useful and I abandoned. Tile would be wise to consider abandoning their app on iOS.
sounds like they dont like competition when its not in their favor. or they desperately wanted to be bought by Apple and instead, Apple made their own product.
They want to force me to install applications from their store. No, I will never install anything like this.
Apple is abusing their position by offering the consumer free stuff? WTH
I don't have to own it, to recognize anticompetitive behaviors, nor do the judge.
Hope the forum members can spring into action and come to the defence of the little guys in Cupertino.
Tile should stop whining. If your business model needs a device by a third party… **** can happen.
I had a tile; I hated that it was constantly pinging my location and sending it back to.. god knows where..
I trust Apple with my privacy.
I trust Apple with my privacy.
This is your statement, correct?
"Better take forever to add a replaceable battery, than build some poor made Airtag, and face child safety concerns."
I don't see anything you wrote about being anti-competitive. Once again.....
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This crowd you speak of seems to have grown stronger over the last few years. Of course, it is hard to know who is behind the keyboard of these comments but I'd suspect they might be inexperienced at seeing the bigger picture. Apple is great - at the same time, pretty much all they do is to lock users in tighter and tighter. Either play by their rules or don't... and get lost. There is no grey space and no arbitration process via some independent institution like in the case of Tile and the FindMy network exclusivity. This is why the anticompetitive hearings currently going on are somewhat important towards determining the near-term direction of the industry. Microsoft, and then Google, got hammered earlier on and perhaps it is now Apple's turn. Power is great as it can shape industries for the better but it can also discourage innovation from smaller startups due to the enormous moats built out by the incumbents over many years. The Apple sweethearts/sycophants seem to believe that the only place from whence innovative ideas can spring forth is 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino. If anything, this crowd is just repeating monopolistic capitalist apologia. Again, I am a huge fan of the company's progress and products but at some point, overwhelming power is overwhelming. In an ironic way, perhaps the voices saying 'Apple took the risks and now has the right to take their reward' should switch to calling for the reduction of the company's power in order to allow the next behemoth to take over. After all, new standards and products mean all new ecosystems to buy into! Just think of how great that will be for the economy...
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