I’m not so sure about that, Vanmoof is part of the Find My Network and they still have their own app where you can track your bike.
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Tile CEO: 'We Welcome Competition From Apple, But We Think It Needs to Be Fair'
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As a Apple fanboy for decades - I'm sticking with Tile. Obvi Airtags will prove to be better but idk, out of all the Apple controversies right now - this one rubs me the wrong way.
That's not much of a response. Try responding to the points about how they did it.
Well I'm sure Vanmoof isn't charging you to track your Bike through their app.
No company is going to have a paid tracking service through their own app and a free one through a built in app.
Apple is privileged. What in the actual bonkers? As if they are gifted? They built their network. They own the network. That’s call building your product. I wonder how many believe they are privileged to own a phone. 😅😅. Stay well.
I still use a 3rd party flashlight app called “light” because you can program it to strobe on launch. I turn it on and put the iPhone in my shirt pocket when picking up food and have to walk between cars in the drive thru.
Quote correctly to sound clever, and not out of context.
Good! Apple needs to be constantly placed on notice for their what is very clear monopoly. Open the payment systems to!
Cry me a river. This is nothing but, "We can't compete by offering a better product so we want our competition banned."
Over the years, Apple took many of the things we'd developed and integrated them into their products like macOS. Did we cry about it? Nope, we just found ways to make ours better and more appealing.
The only people looking to ban competition are those that know they can't offer something that's competitive.
Over the years, Apple took many of the things we'd developed and integrated them into their products like macOS. Did we cry about it? Nope, we just found ways to make ours better and more appealing.
The only people looking to ban competition are those that know they can't offer something that's competitive.
The Find My iPhone app and Find My Friends app have been around for a long time - 2010 & 2011, according to Wikipedia. They were merged into the Find My app in 2019.
Prober is being misleading when he says the Find My app (and by implication, its functionality) debuted in 2019.
Find My AirPods functionality was added to Find my iPhone in iOS 10.3 in March 2017. I think the Find My Network debuted in 2019 with iOS 13 & the Find My app, improving how people find their iPhones, iPads, Macs, and AirPods by securely leveraging Apple devices in a mesh finding network. Earlier in 2021, the Find My Network was opened up to developers; new third party trackers are on the market. And now, of course, Apple has released the AirTag.
Tile was founded in December 2012. Tiles can ping nearby Tile app users - the app tells Tile, which then sends the location to the Tile’s owner’s Tile app. Privacy & security characteristics of the Tile system are unknown. They began charging monthly for full access to their Tile app network at some point.
Prober is being misleading when he says the Find My app (and by implication, its functionality) debuted in 2019.
Find My AirPods functionality was added to Find my iPhone in iOS 10.3 in March 2017. I think the Find My Network debuted in 2019 with iOS 13 & the Find My app, improving how people find their iPhones, iPads, Macs, and AirPods by securely leveraging Apple devices in a mesh finding network. Earlier in 2021, the Find My Network was opened up to developers; new third party trackers are on the market. And now, of course, Apple has released the AirTag.
Tile was founded in December 2012. Tiles can ping nearby Tile app users - the app tells Tile, which then sends the location to the Tile’s owner’s Tile app. Privacy & security characteristics of the Tile system are unknown. They began charging monthly for full access to their Tile app network at some point.
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Apple is doing the equivalent of what Amazon has been doing to sellers on their marketplace. Adopt/recreate a smaller company's product and give it distinct advantages (in Amazon's case: search results placement, "recommended", and price).
I think Apple makes great products, and given equivalent capabilities between Tile and AirTags, most people would choose Apple's product. Especially so when considering the reoccurring costs of Tile. Apple going beyond competition to hurt competitors.
I think Apple makes great products, and given equivalent capabilities between Tile and AirTags, most people would choose Apple's product. Especially so when considering the reoccurring costs of Tile. Apple going beyond competition to hurt competitors.
if you can, compete, if you can't whine about it! The perfect solution for tile is to open their app to all trackers, make it way better than anyone else's app and they win!
Interesting how they are "priveleged" to not have to ask a single user for permission to allow their phone to be used by other people to track their bikes, but need to make everyone opt in to ad tracking.
.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...
As the saying goes “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”.
so Apple should develop, build and maintain an entire backend network for their potential competitors to use…for fun?
So the lesson learned here is: don't have the bulk of your business model (Tile) rely on another company (Apple) for long term success
Unless your business plan (Tile) is to eventually be purchased by that company (Apple)?
iPhone customers want apple products because they know they work best together. That's Apple's business model.
Tile is platform agnostic, so maybe they'll have to ramp up the reasoning why Apple and Android users should buy them.
Unless your business plan (Tile) is to eventually be purchased by that company (Apple)?
iPhone customers want apple products because they know they work best together. That's Apple's business model.
Tile is platform agnostic, so maybe they'll have to ramp up the reasoning why Apple and Android users should buy them.
Funny how I don’t remember Apple fans saying how “crappy” Tile was when they were happily using them long before AirTags came along. It’s almost like you have to HATE everything that competes with Apple products.