svanstrom

ITGUYINSD said:

Common sense not withstanding, it seems that those who originate or post themselves participating in these deadly "games" and "Challenges" should be held accountable for anyone that dies from such games -- Accomplices.  Why are these even allowed to be put on the internet?  Videos of people practically suffocating themselves for others to duplicate?

So you want to do things like hold 12yos accountable for the death of a 10yo that copied what they did?!

What you did there was nothing but a type of victim-blaming. You completely ignored the often old men making millions upon millions in profit, and headed straight to wanting to punish children for other children copying them.

And then you went on to some generalised "shouldn't be allowed"-thing.

So your shown priorities went:
1. Blame children.
2. This isn't good.
3. *nothing*

Don't you think that if you talk about holding anyone "accountable" (a word you even used) it should be the ones profiting from all this? The ones that actually could do something, but don't want to use their profit to actually make the product safe? Don't you think that that should have been the first thing I read in your comment?

james_hays said:

I had stopped using Facebook over their privacy policy. Now that I have a choice, maybe I’ll start using it again. Probably not, though. 

They've kept using you, though; which at its core is what fb is complaining about right now, that they will be forced to ask for permission rather than just straight up collect data about people without people having a say about it.

Xed said:

beowulfschmidt said:

I'm hoping there's a way to attach this unobtrusively to my bike.

Being able to hide it under the seat or some place where it's not likely to be detected would be great.

Of course people will want to use it like that, but it's not really designed for it; instead you should get something more like: https://bikefinder.com/en.

With the right protection you'll even get a lower, or zero, deduction from the insurance company if your bike gets stolen.

cornchip said:

AppleInsider said:

The design is simple with a white-rounded back and a silver front with an Apple logo. It looks similar to a watch battery with a slight hump on the back.

I’m not on Apple’s design or marketing team, but wouldn’t the bulbous white shell part be the “front” and the metal disk be the “back”? 

Or am I missing something?

Edit: any thoughts on how old of devices these would be compatible with? Only 11 & up?

The compatibility is actually more down to a business and/or functionality decision rather than the tech itself…

In theory any device with bluetooth could be good enough; with some features that one might want to require starting with the iPhone 4S.

However, practically we are pretty much assuming that an AirTag-device would one way or another be related to the Apple U1-chip; which would mean the devices listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple-designed_processors#U_series_list.

What isn't listed there is of course the AirPods Max; which is where the guessing game becomes a bit extra muddled, and here's why. Since the AirPods Max has other features allowing it to keep track of where it is it appears like Apple won't make it a pure hardware-thingie to locate devices physically. So there seems like they're betting on an abstraction layer that sort of is technology agnostic. If that's the case they could potentially make the core technology available on any device compatible with the latest OS, assuming that's how they chose to launch AirTag-compatibility. Some devices would just not be able to show direction to the lost device, only distance.

So at the end of they day we don't really know until something actually is released; but "11 & up" seems like a safe bet when it comes to the iPhones.

Edit: By safe bet I mean that there's no reason to go upgrade in anticipation of an AirTag launch if you're currently on an 11 (or better) iPhone. But personally I'm on an Xs Max, and on the fence about the 12 Pro Max; and I would really like a Tile-like device leveraging the whole Apple ecosystem. So it could get expensive. 

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

Xed said:

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

That design can't be right. One side has to be flat to mount the tag to a surface.

From what I've seen from this common leak/mockup is that the metal side is flat and with a small lip so that that its edge cen hold many different type of 1st and 3rd part objects, like keychains, with ease.

I hope there is more to the AirTag than simply being a Tile competitor. There are now Bluetooth tags that have built in GPS receivers and talk to each other in a mesh network. They are used to track moving equipment at airports and other places. Add a camera, microphone and a solar charger and they would make excellent security devices.

Can you post these other "Bluetooth tags" that have all these features in the size and price range of Tile? I can easily see how larger equipment can be tracked at an airport with accuracy, but I can't see how those can be with easily pocketable devices whose batteries last for month. Airplanes use ADS-B Out to send their locations and that's not being used by ground vehicles at airport, but these aren't small, inexpensive, or using BT.

https://www.faa.gov/airports/resources/advisory_circulars/index.cfm/go/document.current/documentnumber/150_5220-26

They are larger, obviously. The point is that Bluetooth tags can do a lot more than ping their ID. Here is an example:
https://www.digitalmatter.com/applications/bluetooth-asset-tracking/

So you are seriously disappointed with a Tile competitor on day one leveraging the whole Apple ecosystem, simply because Apple didn't also magically make a device bigger than an iPhone fit into a coin-sized device?

Are you actually serious about that?