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Tile CEO: 'We Welcome Competition From Apple, But We Think It Needs to Be Fair'
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I agree it’s one thing if you wanna make a good product but I don’t believe tile does. I think they’re owning from a greedy stand
The phone is in your hands, but how you can use it was spelled out in the End User Licensing Agreement that you agreed to. Rule of thumb, if there’s an EULA, then you’re an End User Agreeing to the License.
BUT it’s not my fault folks don’t read those agreements. I feel that far more people should read them, though.
I'm not referring to Fortnite. I'm talking about Unreal Engine, which is widely used in the Game / Film industry.
I’m not to sure any one is saying their game engine is the problem here.
Did you guys get your Find My network turned off ok like I showed in my other post? If you need any help just message me. 😉
You are clever with words. But to suggest that Mastercard services are equivalent to the App Store is either a profound lack of understanding or a deliberate misrepresentation to support your view. I tend to think you know better.
Similarly to suggest Spotify is in the same business is misleading and conveniently leaves out that Apple users can and do use Spotify's service outside of the App Store by enrolling on Spotify's site. Does Spotify send people to Apple Music on their website? Why not! The outrage.
More telling of your intentional bias is not what you list, but what you leave out. The App Store charges LESS than what traditional vendors do. You will say, well those folks have additional costs. Yep and the App Store has additional costs to either Mastercard or Spotify. You bring up a lot of markets that are not relevant, but neglect to bring up the one market that IS relevant. And that is similar app stores on competitor's platforms. What do they charge? Oh wait. the same.
Anti-trust, monopolistic, nice words. Why should we trust arguments that don't look at all the sides?
Ok, so I haven’t searched the web for trackers as I wasn’t even interested in trackers before AirTags was a thing. However, Tile’s solutions look good, are there any other trackers that have more varied form factors AND lower prices AND similar service?
My assumption was that, just from being in the market longer than most others, they would have at least SOME advantage on form factors.
Do you apply that warped logic to all the products you buy or just the ones from your beloved Apple?
It's definitely a good idea to read them, but it doesn't mean everything that it's written there from the point of view of contract law actually stands. Depending on the country's legislation an EULA's mileage may vary a lot.
Tile was not fine, tracking worked half the time, battery notifications never worked and you only found out months later when you needed it, beeping functionality didn't always work, etc. I know, I have been using Tile for years. Not saying that Apple tags are better since I have not used those, but Tile could use a lot of improvements.
Intel was "amazing" maybe in the 90s? Personally I think Intel is fine, not garbage, but the M1 is definitely better (I have a couple of Intel Macbook Pro and a new M1, and not only is M1 performing better, it is dead silent and has never heated up so far compared to the other two).
Epic was fine, until they started being extremely shady with this crusade against Apple. I find their behavior childish at best. We can't hold this against them because they were fine before? And that goes in general for any of this, just because a company was "fine" in the past, if they become stagnant and don't improve, and a new competitor comes along doing it better, you should definitely hold that against the old company.
I found it but couldn’t see any option to turn off or opt out of finding AirTags. It seems to be a find everything or find nothing option. I can’t say I’m surprised. Apple insist I opt in or opt out of ad tracking for every single app but are quite happy for Apple to track me without any way of refining it. As always with Apple it’s do as I say not as I do.
To be fair, some of the folks that said RIP PPC are RIP’ing themselves right now. I doubt they’re posting how Intel is garbage.
I’m confused. It looks like tile has been working on an UWB tile for awhile.
techcrunch.com
And the U1 specification will be available later this spring according to:
www.macrumors.com
Tile currently has access to join Find My, but they’ve decided not to. And as far as complaining to Apple about Find My since 2019- Find My just gained the capability to track items 4 weeks ago. This is the time that it became a tile competitor, not in 2019. Tile is acting like it’s been around since 2019. This was only a find my friends and find my iPhone merge.- Basically a name change for services that have been around for 10 years.
So is the real complaint that people aren’t going to pay a subscription to tile for the features that Apple gives for free?
Tile to launch a new tracker powered by ultra-wideband technology, add AR finding to app | TechCrunch
Tile is preparing to introduce a new product this year that will serve as a rival to Apple's long-awaited AirTags and other lost-item trackers coming to
techcrunch.com
Third-Party Accessory Makers Can Access U1 Chip in iPhones for Find My
Apple today announced the launch of its Find My network accessory program, which lets third-party accessories integrate with the Find My app. ...
www.macrumors.com
So is the real complaint that people aren’t going to pay a subscription to tile for the features that Apple gives for free?
Literally the entire market would stop ANY company from making a new phone and os.
Apple DID introduce Spatial Audio which is an Apple only thing. They also have the M1 chip which is Apple only. I don’t think Bose or Sony or any of the others is concerned in the least.
Wait… TILE HAD A MONOPOLY ON THE TILE NETWORK!!! They have GOT to be broken up, because they’ve got a 100% monopoly on the hardware and network they built! Glad you caught this!
Agreed. They stopped Microsoft from doing it even though they had a good UI that was genuinely different from iOS and Android. Developers really don’t want the added expense and overheads of building mobile apps for more than two operating systems if they can avoid it.
So you want to be able to leave Find My on for your iPhone so you can take advantage of the network if needed. But you don't want to allow others to use your iPhone to help themselves if they lose an item with an AirTag. How nice.
I don't think I have seen a CEO whine and play the victim as much as the one from Tile. I would get rid of him.
Businesses always cry for protection from big daddy govt when things get tough.
They probably will do that because Apple doesn’t want any competition so they will just shut them out until they give up and leave. Of course that cuts both ways becuase if Tile goes you will have little or no choice but to choose the AirTags. In the end the people who loose the most are Apple users because we have less choice and higher prices.
Good call. I forgot about that spineless snake in the grass.
Pretty much, across the board. Things I like, I spend money on. Things I don’t like, OR I don’t like the agreement on, I don’t spend money on. When I wanted Microsoft Office, I bought it. When I wanted a Playstation 5, I bought it. When I found out that Nintendo games aren’t allowed on Sony’s platforms… well it wasn’t a surprise. I bought a Switch for that anyway. Wasn’t really interested in the Xbox, so I bought it and then complained about the money I was…. nah, I just didn’t buy it. I had Xfinity, then they raised the price. So, I just kept paying the old price because there’s no way they were getting mo…. nah, when I wasn’t good with the agreement, I canceled the service.
When I wanted a house BOY that was a long process, but it’s done now. I wanted to pay less for it, like $5, but I was informed that I couldn’t buy a house like the one I wanted for that much. So, I bought the house at the agreed price BUT just just didn’t pay more than $5. I immediately filed a lawsuit indicating that the house was never worth that… just kidding, I paid the price that I thought was fair.
It’s interesting that “Common Sense” is now considered “warped logic”.