Thank you. That was exactly what I wanted. But I see that Apple is basically blackmailing us into participating in the Find My network.
So... you don’t want your phone to help others find their missing stuffs, but you want others’ phones to help you find your missing stuffs. How brilliant that the world revolves around you!
Nope, this is for people still on that wet dream of AirTags. If Apple could do the product of a hardware puck with greater value they'd do it. instead the margins are FAR too low and let small fries make the tiny hardware is huge volumes and let partners connect to their cloud services.
Boost that cloud services revenue - no hardware to expense out of the final profit.
Most cars have a built in GPS system. Alongside a bunch of cool remote start features and what not. Look into these as well as the AirTags as a backup.
Do you also want to opt out of having other people’s iPhones and iPads upload the location of you missing devices? If so, there is a setting that allows that.
No, not blackmailing you, offering you a deal. You help others and others help you.
That is not blackmail. It is an explanation. If your device does not participate in the network, your device can only be found if it transmits its GPS location to the network. If it does participate, it acts as a part of the mesh and transmits its tag to any participating Apple device that passes it, and when other devices are near it, it receives their tags and uploads their location to Apple when the radios next get powered up. Completely anonymous.
If you do not activate the service, you are neither a transmitter nor a receiver and you do not get the benefit of the service.
You do understand that the service would be useless if people could only be transmitters, right? If there are no devices that receive these pings, there is no network. You can still locate your device as long as it can still send out its GPS coordinates. That takes a lot of power and so will not last that long. The Find My Network pings are very low power and will last much longer.
To my knowledge all of these concerns are already solved by apple, Rene Ritchie does a good video on YouTube about this.
I know what you mean, but this bike existed long before Apple got involved. Apple's only input was the ‘find my’ integration, nothing to do with the bike design.
Tbqh, I rode a Van Moof bike and while its nice Gazelle, Reese and Mueller, Specialized all make far and away better e-bikes.
On one hand this would be really useful in Berlin but no one is crazy enough to use a new bike there lol gone with the wind … and tracked across the border in a day
not sure if it was ment as a sacarsm or genuine question, so I assume it is geniune ^^. It's unfortunately a good reward vs. difficulty ratio. It's relatively easy to steal (most locks can be destroyed) and easy to re-sell ('used' bike). ebikes make this a bit harder (custom components, integration with an app), and I think that this would take everything a step further, thus increasing the difficulty and deterring potential thieves. it's a free extra feature so why not?
