n2itivguy

xyzzy01 said:

daven said:

Nothing stoped competing products from creating their own apps to find their tags. In fact, they did just that. 

Sure, but Apple gets a couple of large advantages when deciding to compete in this market:

1) Both vendors depend on a network of devices to find the tags if they're missing... Tile tags are only searched for by other Tile-owning customers running the same app. Same for other vendors... as long as you don't have a lot of customers, the use will be limited. Apple gets to use all iPhones by default

2) For detection etc to work for Tile, the users need to run an app in the background. Not only will this probably use a bit more battery etc. than Apple's implementation which will be at the OS level, but Tile's app will also have nag the users about using the location in the background on a regular basis. No such need for Apple's competing, newly launched product.

I'm obviously not saying that to avoid this, any vendor should be able to run whatever they want in the background and gather data so as to reduce friction with customers - or that any vendor should be able to get their software included in the OS on every iPhone. I'm just pointing out that this - the ability to gain a huge advantage in a new market due to a market position in a different market - is problematic. 

I don't have a good solution either.

mjtomlin said:

pulseimages said:

Spotify would be better if their app wasn’t so clunky compared to Apple Music. 

Well that's only because Apple is yet again being anticompetitive, because they have a monopoly over the iOS user interface and can take advantage of their UI designers.

photography guy said:

I like the redundancy of FaceID and TouchID on the same device. It gives us more options on how to use security protocols based on different situations.