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Skeptical said:

I have to agree a bit here with the Tile dude. After a few updates, my Tile were useless for the most part. And so I switched to the AirTags. Not impressed at all. I can hold the AirTag next to the phone and it tells me the signal is weak. WTF Apple. Anyway, maybe I’m holding it wrong. Tile has nothing to worry about if this is the best that Apple cans do. Queue the fanboy flamers…

How exactly did they become useless? Are you talking about the occasional GPS popups whether you want to keep letting Tile or whatever access your location in the background? How often do you get them?

I agree that there should be a “yeah it’s ok FOREVER” setting. But I really doubt it was done to kill Tile. Apple has a massive advantage in being able to build the finding network into the OS itself, so there is no need to “kill” anyone with stunts like that. 

shareef777 said:

Skeptical said:

I have to agree a bit here with the Tile dude. After a few updates, my Tile were useless for the most part. And so I switched to the AirTags. Not impressed at all. I can hold the AirTag next to the phone and it tells me the signal is weak. WTF Apple. Anyway, maybe I’m holding it wrong. Tile has nothing to worry about if this is the best that Apple cans do. Queue the fanboy flamers…

Agreed, ordered a four pack and thoroughly unimpressed. Biggest issue is that it doesn’t do what it’s supposed to do… track. And the sound is practically inaudible. Did they test it in a sound proof room!? I’ll be sending mine back.

By not tracking you mean that it doesn’t show a route on a map, or what?

”pay for news”

I think it would be fair to mention in the subject and at least in the article that the law makes Facebook and Google pay for *links to news*.

The law also forces them to show these links in search results (Google) or in the timeline as people post links (Facebook).

And Facebook has to pay even if journalists share their own work there. Probably also in the case newspapers themselves post the links.