philboogie

dewme said:

philboogie said:

AppleInsider said:

An American Airlines customer used an AirTag stashed in his wallet to track it(...)

Uhm, no, he didn't track his wallet. He tracked his AirTag. Which was probably tossed out along with his ID and other useless items.

That sounds like a more likely scenario considering the AirTag, once removed from the wallet and tossed, are quite small and slim making it more likely to have fallen into a small crevice like the seat mounting channels, under the dirty carpet, between seat cushions, improperly stowed in an overhead bin, or stuck between the gooey & sticky pages of one of the in-flight magazines, or in one of those safety booklets in the pocket on the rear of the seats. Nobody ever ever opens those booklets, so it could be permanently fused with dust that's been in there since the seats were installed at the factory.

Yeah, it totally sucks to lose your wallet and AirTag ($29 + cost of holder) plus all the other stuff in your wallet, like your frequent flyer card and a picture of your dog, but if you figure this plane flew to 35 destinations since you left your wallet behind, with say 100-200 passengers onboard per flight, do you as AirTag owner seriously believe that ANY airline is going to interrupt the travel plans of 3500-7000 other people to do a fine-toothed-comb search of the aircraft to find your lost tag? Seriously? In 2023? Ha.Ha.Ha. NFW.

I guess we should add one more Con to the AirTag product review Pros/Cons ... "Owner may have to suffer the indignity of being reminded of their stupidity for several days and many thousands of miles."

retrogusto said:

Even on a bad day, the online experience beats the in-store experience by a large margin. The last two times I bought an iPhone (one for me, one for a gift), it took around an hour in the store, despite the fact that I knew exactly what I wanted when I walked in the door. Both times I was in too much of a rush to wait for delivery of an online purchase, but it seemed crazy to me that I couldn’t just hand someone my credit card and walk out the door a few minutes later, the way you can in most retail stores when you know what you want, are ready to pay, and they have it in stock. Instead you find one person who can put your name on a list to talk to a salesperson, wait a long time for them, then talk to them, wait a while for the device to be sent out from a back room…

I’m hoping to never be in a position again where I have to buy a phone in a hurry, but sometimes your phone just dies and you don’t have a lot of options. I guess maybe the purpose is to force you to stand around with nothing to do but play with other Apple devices, in the hope that you’ll buy more stuff? It may also be faster if you buy online for in-store pickup, but I bet you still have to wait a while to talk to the person who can help you.

chasm said:

CheeseFreeze said:

Still can’t purchase HomePod or HomePod Mini in the Netherlands. Why??

Same answer as with most new products: Apple apparently has only a limited (large, but limited) number available at the moment and has opted to address its biggest markets first. Hopefully you in the Netherlands and other great countries will get some before Christmas, but yeah as I'm in Canada I've gotten used to occasionally not being in the first clutch of countries to get the latest hotness.