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Beats said:

22july2013 said:

Although the limit of four characters engraving seems to prohibit placing a phone number on the AirTag, I noticed there were lots of two-digit emojis to choose from so I was able to engrave my 7 digit phone number on mine. The highest two digit emoji is 50 so some phone numbers will be unengravable, however the fact that a phone number has only 7 digits, not 8, means you can still find a way to select some 7-digit phone numbers that contain high digits. There were two ways I could have engraved my number because of this trick. This means people can contact me if they find my AirTag even if I haven't put mine into "Lost Mode."

This is ridiculous of Apple. They should allow 2 sentences of text.

For example:

This is my dog!
😢 Please return (555) 555-5555

StrangeDays said:

skippingrock said:

Or initial engraving limitation for it’s sudden sellout was a brilliant marketing plan to generate even more interest… but who knows but them. 

Ah yes, the “artificially constrain supply in order to sell more” conspiracy. Yeah. That isn’t how it works. Apple is already on top of the industry, anything they announce gets front page coverage on CNN etc...they dont need to artificially limit production to generate interest. Doing so only hampers their ability to sell more thru the channel. Nope. At their scale, their problem is that of actual supply constraint.

When a product does well someone always says this “artificial supply” crap.

Does it even work? Why would Apple sell 100,000 and hold back millions of units just to “hype the product”. That’s so stupid logically. If something is sold out it frustrates the consumer causing them to buy an alternative. Especially if it’s a b-day gift.

randominternetperson said:

I'd bet good money that professional photographers make up a tiny proportion of MacBook Pro owners.  Developers likely outnumber them at least 20 to one.  

seanj said:

most people use their phones to take photographs.