Guarantee you'll be able to buy a variety of third party clips & keychains starting at around $1 in the next coming weeks, just like you can buy third party Apple Watch bands for under 5 bucks.
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Tile Unhappy With Apple's AirTag Launch, 'Skeptical' About Fair Competition and Plans to Tattle to Congress
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The most notable thing about Tile's statement is the complete absence of any specific allegations of anti-competitive acts by Apple.
It's because Samsung doesn't pose a threat. Apple will own this item tracking market just like they own the smart watch market, and Tile knows this.
So what's your point? That isn't anti-competitive on Apple's part; it simply means they know how to sell accessories.
Also, there will be affordable accessories all over the place very soon, which you no doubt know.
Can't wait to be able to dump my Tiles. I keep one on my car keys, which are usually in my front jeans pocket. If I happen to bend the wrong way, the button on the Tile gets pushed and my iPhone starts making that stupid noise. Tile, I didn't buy you to help my find my phone! If the AirTags weren't released today, I was considering performing some "light surgery" on the Tile to see if I could disable the stupid button...
Exactly.
And the people who reacted angrily to your comment are… let’s just say probably not well grounded in reality.
There doesn't seem to be an answer to Tiles wallet tracker? That is considerably slimmer than an AirTag. I have a set of 4 tiles on keys, plus one in my wallet. I've got a years subscription to them now, I might look at changing over to AirTags when that runs out.
So Apple can't enter any market which has some product in it?
Go away, Tile.
Go away, Tile.
Probably had this written and ready to release a week ago.
You don't think there will be other cases? Wow.
Let me translate:
"We're upset that customers will have a competing option with strong privacy controls so we can't monetize their location data"
"We're upset that customers will have a competing option with strong privacy controls so we can't monetize their location data"
Intead of whining now, why don't/didn't Tile join the program when Apple opened it up last year?
And they kept their mouth shut when Samsung announced the similar one last year.
And they kept their mouth shut when Samsung announced the similar one last year.
WTF? How could you possibly complain to congress about "unfair competition" while in the same breath you've laid out such a substantial case for how prolific your product is across so many platforms?
Wait, so you're saying Tile use their market dominance to freeze 3rd party accessory makers out of the market? That's a little mean of them.
Many of them have been reading Apple’s Since Patent filing and information leaks for the last two years. So, which 3rd parties had the features you are talking about before sites like this started leaking details in Apple’s tags? Apple also has a process for dealing with 3rd party features. They will always release new tech platforms like this themselves because there will always be issues and they can develop more deeply when it’s just them. When they have done most of the heavy lifting they add 3rd part support.
Instead of crying about it, they could have released a version that works with the Find My network. But no...
I think the title reflects the childishness of Tile.
Honestly NON of these products are “attractive” in any way. It’s a puck. That’s it. Square or circular from any of the 100+ competitors.
sounds like Tile was offered to come to the table, gave Aple the miiddle
Finger and sat on the sidelines. Samsung went their own way I’ll bet a HUGE opportunity to imbedd in their laptops was lost here. Only 1 HP product has tile inside.
why didn’t Apple make U1 within its M1 macs? I got not in iPad Pro 2021, or does it have it?
now Tile is upset and going to tattle tale?! Like seriously? They’ll be laughed out of court.
honestly I still think this should’ve been made by the cop Leitrim like tule then a partnership of devices logistics etc be unified. But no. This is NOT good for consumers
"Plans to Tattle to Congress" Damn, MacRumours just going for it 😂
I currently have a few Tiles, and the #1 reason I plan to switch to AirTags is because Tile is so obnoxious and whiney. Their app also constantly bugs me to give it 24/7 location access and is a battery drain.
I currently have a few Tiles, and the #1 reason I plan to switch to AirTags is because Tile is so obnoxious and whiney. Their app also constantly bugs me to give it 24/7 location access and is a battery drain.
Tile charge a subscription for something that Apple has just implemented for free with a network >1Bn devices. I can see why they are salty but Tile’s relevance was pretty low when it relied on other tile users only.
Apple is hoping 3rd parties create products with tags already integrated. A car key, wallet, bicycle’s etc. It‘s not Apple‘s tags that will be interesting….it’s the 3rd party integration.
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I can see both sides of the argument on this. Tile had the idea years before, probably when you first heard of them (like me) you had never thought of a handy little device for finding things like keys. Must be nearly a decade these things have been around now?
I usually take Apple's side with things like the closed platform and all. Sure, Apple can do a much better job and a long term strategy (U1 chip development, integration in their devices) to make an Apple like experience when using them to find something.
I'm a supporter of capitalism too, in a 'more competition is good' and whoever does it the best, the cheapest wins. But like, no matter how much talent Tile had (and I'm sure they have it , and could raise the investment money to fund big projects to develop great seamless technology that just works too) - but despite this, regardless of how good they could do it, they would face the obvious challenge of iOS high security standards and API frameworks.
Essentially, how could they really have been able to compete, given that Apple can waive its own rules / limitations for itself? Same argument comes up a lot now.
I love Apple's accessories. But this is an example of how it wasn't rocket science to make a great little product, there were some enforced limitations (not technical limitations nobody could figure out until Apple tried) by Apple that kinda prevented Tile and all from getting this good.
Interesting to hear what others think. Big Apple fan here, not trashing them, but I can kinda see Tile's argument more so than usual.
I usually take Apple's side with things like the closed platform and all. Sure, Apple can do a much better job and a long term strategy (U1 chip development, integration in their devices) to make an Apple like experience when using them to find something.
I'm a supporter of capitalism too, in a 'more competition is good' and whoever does it the best, the cheapest wins. But like, no matter how much talent Tile had (and I'm sure they have it , and could raise the investment money to fund big projects to develop great seamless technology that just works too) - but despite this, regardless of how good they could do it, they would face the obvious challenge of iOS high security standards and API frameworks.
Essentially, how could they really have been able to compete, given that Apple can waive its own rules / limitations for itself? Same argument comes up a lot now.
I love Apple's accessories. But this is an example of how it wasn't rocket science to make a great little product, there were some enforced limitations (not technical limitations nobody could figure out until Apple tried) by Apple that kinda prevented Tile and all from getting this good.
Interesting to hear what others think. Big Apple fan here, not trashing them, but I can kinda see Tile's argument more so than usual.