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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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This makes no sense. AirTags currently has zero user base - since it's not available for a few more days. Therefore, as of this moment, Tile's user base is "obliterating" AirTags'. When it becomes available, AirTags' *potential* user base is all iOS users. Tile's *potential* user base is all iOS users and all Android users. So, again, who is "obliterating" whom?
I think AirTags is a much better product, so they will eventually dominate in the iOS space - but it has nothing to do with user bases.
Makes it sound like Apple-branded implants. Will there be AirBags Pro? Pro Max??
"If" they follow the rules.
The fact they are one of the big three players of the "Coalition for App Fairness" (along with Epic) suggests that they may not want to.
Every iOS device out in the wild is a potential help in finding a lost item with AirTag on it - just as it is with iPhones, iPads etc.
This is completely independent of the actual number of AirTag owners/users.
Computrace is BIOS implementation it does nothing for stolen hardware to be found. It need to be powered on. That’s why HP used Tile in their EliteBook X360 DragonFly model - a corporate targeting machine.
Computrace is not heavily used by corporations in N.America ... not in the financial industry with CIBC/BMO/TD nor in the mining industry Kinross, Glencore, Barrick (prior to merger).
I'm aware the computer system needs to be powered on to operate, but in that scenario that its lost or stolen, what's the chance that it's never powered on after theft ?
Having previously been a reseller in a past life for Computrace, it's far more versatile, and useful when it comes to tracking stolen or lost computers than you might think. It shows location. Not to mention there's the law enforcement hook up, remote wiping / locking and possibility to take photos of the thief using the webcam along with remote viewing the screen and if I remember rightly reports on installed software and hardware changes.
ummm no. Airtags user base/ devices to track the location of tags blows tile out of the water. it is every single iOS device, and every single Mac out there that can update a location of a tag for someone. Tile is limited to both the app being open on iOS or an Android device with the App on it. They do not get access to just update locations at a random.
So you have never spent more than 30 secs looking for keys. You have never had to use find my anything.I'm just surprised that there are so many people that lose their stuff so often they need tiles or airtags lol
I have zero use for this. I know where my stuff is at all times. I'm an adult
Cases like your keys might of fallen out of your pocket or a kid grabs your phone, keys and wonders off with them dropping them in a random location? The fall behind a desk and you done see it happen.
Adulting helps but there are always cases things get misplaced. I personally use my tile like a at least once a week to find something. I know for me in the pass if I got to work and I was missing my wallet I could tell very quickly where it was based on last known location. If it was at home I clearly left it in my basket and did not grab it. If it someone where random on my commute or office building it tells me it is in my car and I just walk out and grab it. Another one farther back was I got home did not have my wallet and last known spot was right near my desk at work. So I knew it was at my desk at the office. Not the a big deal just knew were it was.
I'm an Adult, my cat however doesn't care, resulting in my car keys and remaining key fob being "tipped" into a trash can.I'm just surprised that there are so many people that lose their stuff so often they need tiles or airtags lol
I have zero use for this. I know where my stuff is at all times. I'm an adult
If a tag had been attached I might have been able to dumpster dive and forgo spending $200 on new remotes and programming.
Anyone with toddlers probably has similar issues. Although sewer diving for flushed keys would be far worse.
What Tile is missing here is that they could add Find My integration here and as the leading item tracker, have potentially had the highest sales they had ever seen in their history. They could have had unprecedented sales. But now, they will be laughed at, fall into obliteration, and be studied in schools for how NOT to do business and litigate!
I don’t understand how Tile is complaining at this point they still have an advantage over both Apple and Samsung as they have different sizes for different uses such as the credit card style that can be used to keep track of wallets and the button style to stick on remotes. Instead of whining show how versatile your product is.
Too bad Tile. Your CEO was given a HANDFUL of opportunities to take a major buyout from Apple, and they knew damn well that Apple's product would naturally blow theirs out of the water.
You knew that this day was coming, and you have held your spot as tracker king for years, milking suckers like me out of hundreds and hundreds of dollars after each individual Tile's internal unreplaceable battery would die (like clock work within 1st <2 years) was not an organic growth model for this to be fast-tracked on a much larger scale. Tile did it sloppily because they knew precisely what Apple had coming down the pike.
And to cry now once the public has fairly spent hundreds on Apple AirTags instead of yet again replacing my dead Tiles is just ridiculous!!!
STOP TRYING TO RIDE THE COAT-TAILS OF THE EPIC GAMES ➜ APPLE INC. BATTLE AND IF YOU ARE SO COMMITTED TO TILES, THEN MAKE THEM CENTRALLY CONTROLLABLE BY THINGS OTHER THAN THOSE POWERED BY IOS. PERIOD.
You knew that this day was coming, and you have held your spot as tracker king for years, milking suckers like me out of hundreds and hundreds of dollars after each individual Tile's internal unreplaceable battery would die (like clock work within 1st <2 years) was not an organic growth model for this to be fast-tracked on a much larger scale. Tile did it sloppily because they knew precisely what Apple had coming down the pike.
And to cry now once the public has fairly spent hundreds on Apple AirTags instead of yet again replacing my dead Tiles is just ridiculous!!!
STOP TRYING TO RIDE THE COAT-TAILS OF THE EPIC GAMES ➜ APPLE INC. BATTLE AND IF YOU ARE SO COMMITTED TO TILES, THEN MAKE THEM CENTRALLY CONTROLLABLE BY THINGS OTHER THAN THOSE POWERED BY IOS. PERIOD.
IT PISSES ME OFF THAT THEY'D HAVE THE KAHUNAS TO TRY AND WASTE OUR FEDERAL SYSTEM'S JUDICIAL SYSTEM OVER THIS NONSENSE.