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This clickbait title was the last straw. I am taking the site out of my RSS feed. 

It would be super cool if during setup you could take a pano of your room and later your Apple TV 4K could show you where in the room your remote was. Then again I guess you would need the remote to use the AppleTV to tell it to find it... never mind.

I don't agree with Tile on everything but most of the people posting do not appear to be aware of the actual complaints which seem pretty valid. 
1. AirTags are automatically allowed to be found whereas Apple makes it very difficult for you to use Location Tracking with the Tile. In my own experience the "allow always" setting was disabled multiple times over several IOS updates.
2. AirTags will have at least 6 months of exclusivity in the market before Tile will be able to get their devices approved.
3. If Tile decides to support Find My it will mean that they have to create a second product line because Find My is a proprietary protocol which Tile will not be able to use for their devices that support Android. 

That being said it seems like eventually Tile will be pretty competitive since Apple charges more for the key fob to put the AirTag in than the AirTag itself! Tile on the other hand can just directly go on your key chain. 

This article is slightly misleading. Much of what goes into producing an Apple device is heavily automated. Final assembly on the other hand is usually pretty manual. That is one of the things which drives component consolidation and design simplification. Despite have a lot more features the number of parts in the iPhone has stayed pretty much the same.

mac_128 said:

I hate the idea that this article attributes the concept of the Newton to Gasse. Steve Jobs was working with Hartmut Esslinger in 1984 on prototypes based on concepts Jobs wanted to bring to market which Sculley refused to consider as he myopically focused on the Mac. Gasse hyper-focused on the Mac in complete disagreement with Jobs as well.

Jobs was already introducing the idea of LCD tablet devices with hand recognition long before Gasse got his sleezy hands on the concept.

Sculley's myopic focus on Mac was right in 1984. Just as Jobs's hyperfocus on it 15 years later when he came back was right. Products are, for lack of a better phrase, products of their time. Technology evolves and so does society. Newton needed handwriting recognition in 1993 because typing was still foreign to the majority of the world (plus mechanical keys would have ballooned the size even further). It wasn't until 2007 with the introduction of the original iPhone that an onscreen keyboard was technologically feasible and the potential audience had evolved to knowing a keyboard better than a pen.

That being said as someone who got my hands on a Newton the day it was publically available and upgraded consistently and eventually tried to switch to a Palm Pilot I never found anything nearly as amazing as the Newton until the iPhone arrived.

As for the claim that Gassée was sleazy, I never saw much of that but Jobs's ability convince himself that what he said previously never happened or that he had thought of something that was someone else's idea, in a lesser man would have come off as very sleazy.