WTH

williamlondon said:

WTH said:

Beats said:

Apple can at least take the blame if they fu** up. I’ve had Apple employees just hand me a refurbished device no questions asked when I’ve dropped my devices and broken them. Great customer service and no bashing original Apple products to promote some spyware cheap knockoff. 

Last month I took my iPhone to the Genius Bar to replace a dying battery.  In the process of replacing the battery, the tech damaged the logic board.

I walked out of the Apple Store with a brand new iPhone for the price of a battery replacement.  A third-party repair shop could never do that.

Another ridiculous fucking statement, absolute drivel. JFC a course in logic is definitely needed around here.

I often have to wonder if the people who post in these forums just sit around trying to think of ways they can get angry at what someone has said.

Allow me to clarify:  if I walk into a third party repair shop, I can just about guarantee that if they destroy my iPhone in the course of a repair, that they are not going to hand me a brand new Apple product on the spot as compensation.  What they will do is apologize and comp the repair, or try to obtain a refurbished unit (which may take a few days), or order more parts to fix it (which again may take a few days).  But they will not give me a brand new iPhone so that I can leave in less than an hour as a happy customer.

You think I need a course a logic?  You should try one in anger management.

Beats said:

Apple can at least take the blame if they fu** up. I’ve had Apple employees just hand me a refurbished device no questions asked when I’ve dropped my devices and broken them. Great customer service and no bashing original Apple products to promote some spyware cheap knockoff. 

Last month I took my iPhone to the Genius Bar to replace a dying battery.  In the process of replacing the battery, the tech damaged the logic board.

I walked out of the Apple Store with a brand new iPhone for the price of a battery replacement.  A third-party repair shop could never do that.

fastasleep said:

Are you both forgetting that your devices know where your home is, assuming you've set up your own contact card properly? Do you not ever use geofencing like "Hey Siri, remind me when I get home to feed the cat"? You and your devices have relevant location data which mitigates your manufactured problem here.

Okay, then how about an example where you loan a friend some item, or leave it at work, or at a family member's house, or some place that you haven't geofenced?  My manufactured problem is no less relevant than your manufactured solution.  Do you really think the average Apple user geofences everything he or she owns?

The real problem is this - it is impossible for Apple to separate the intended function of the AirTag from situations where it could be abused.  As many have pointed out, even 8 hours is more than enough time for a stalker to locate you.  A tracking device is a tracking device - you can't make it a "good" tracking device without making it useless.  It's like trying to make a knife that will cut food but somehow can't be used to cut other things.  The only way is to dull the blade to the point where it can't cut anything.

Apple is headed down the path of making the AirTag useless because it will wind up constantly annoying its users.  And I expect that Sidewalk-enabled Tile trackers will never get one paragraph of mention in a Washington Post article.

mike1 said:

That seems problematic. So, the tag in my suitcase that is stored in a closet could start to play an alert if I am away for as little as 8 hours?! That would be every single work day. My wife will hit me over the head with the suitcase after she tracks down the annoying sound and I get home from work.

It does seem that Apple is already jumping the shark with the AirTag.  This 8 to 24 hour window won't enhance the AirTag, it will simply make it extremely annoying.  Imagine leaving an AirTag on a set of keys while you go on a business trip, and having it drive your family crazy beeping away because you failed to take it with you.

The irony is that it was the Washington Post that published an extremely damning article on how the AirTag would be used by stalkers - the same Washington Post owned by Jeff Bezos, whose own Amazon Sidewalk mesh network is going online next week.  I would bet any amount of money that the Post won't be publishing any stories on how Sidewalk-enabled devices will be abused by stalkers.

The CEO should stop whining and get to work on Tile's next big product:  an anti-theft tracker that uses the Find My network.  Apple has deliberately designed the AirTag to prevent it from being used for that purpose.  Tile could own the anti-theft tracker market if they'd roll up their sleeves and stop complaining to the press.