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eriamjh said:

Here, I thought the iPhone Mini was not going to be refreshed because its sales were so bad compared to the other phones. 

But I think no one looked at the real numbers.   

jpellino said:

According to the one I have in my hands, it's pretty easy.  Press, twist and go.  I see their point.  

According to iFixit’s recent teardown of the AirTag, the battery lid is quite difficult to remove. They state that even with clean, dry fingers it’s hard to get enough friction to turn and release it.

GG1 said:

I'll probably get a few AirTags once I start traveling again, but I'm surprised at how visible people want to make this item. Wouldn't the effectiveness be improved if other people didn't know you had this tracker attached to your item? I would bury an AirTag inside the item, such as luggage. Yes, I realize some items are too small (such as keys), so I'd use a nondescript cover in this case.

But I realize I'm more practical/functional than fashionable.

beowulfschmidt said:

The only irritant I have so far with what I currently know about AirTags is the lack of any way to attach them to stuff without buying another accessory.  This makes AirTags effective more expensive than the other options for for even some trivial use cases, like attaching to a keychain.

You cannot convince me that Apple couldn't have designed this device with an attachment point, especially with the example of the others having actually done so.  That makes this is a deliberate design decision, and the cynical part of me says that it's precisely to encourage the purchase of accessories.

And for those who going to wax eloquent about "esthetics", that's a distraction.