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commentzilla said:

Unless you're taking a private charter flight I'd expect those crazy expensive tags to go missing. Better make sure you're there when the bags come off the baggage carousel, if they haven't been shipped in transit. Carry-on should fair OK but then what about the hotel?

Clearly a product for people with money to burn.

Well if people can afford these tags. Chances are they aren’t flying Spirit or Ryanair.

mike1 said:

j2fusion said:

Soooo... does that mean Apple cannot introduce any products that compete with existing ones. Doesn’t that give existing manufacturers an anticompetitive edge?

I just keep thinking that Tile has been around for years and a minuscule number of consumers own them. That seems to be a major missed opportunity on their part. Apple will probably sell more Air Tags than Tile has ever sold in just the first 12 hours and somehow that's anti-competitive. Sorry kiddos. You had a huge head start and still couldn't make your product the de facto standard.

So, for that statement to be true. Apple have to sell by 5:00 P.M. on 4.23 more than 25M AirTags. You should research your statements before writing stuff like that. Don’t get me wrong I will buy 12 myself but common be realistic. Do they will get to 25M sure eventually this is a first party accessory perfect for the sacred walled garden but not in the first 12 hours...

melgross said:

I’m so tired of hearing about Air Tags. This isn’t going to be a big product, particularly if they’re $39 each as the new Samsung product is. I just don’t see that many being sold at that price. Even the third party products at $29 aren’t doing that well.

Yeah people aren’t interested in tags at all there is no market for them. Look at Tile what a failure they have only sold 26 million tiles since they got crowdfunded.

Specially people within the Apple’s ecosystem will not be interested in a first party Tag. 

gatorguy said:

Odd....
If Apple is rolling out AirTags in just a few weeks why would there even be a new Apple-endorsed third-party tracker announced now? 

because AirTags only exists in the blogosphere. 

Beats said:

Apple needs to acquire ring(closest manufacturer than follows Apple’s design) and gain control over their dream of privacy and the smart home.

Amazon, Google and other scumbag companies sticking their dirty fingers into this market are ruining the dream.

Ring???? That’s garbage owned by Amazon.