sandor

spaceage said:

sandor said:

rob53 said:

What? It’s software related so why does the hardware have anything to do with it? If they can update the software later to make AirPlay work they can do it now. 

100%

Why is the article mentioning a chip shortage when the solution BMW is proffering is an over-the-air software update "at some point in the future"?!?

BMW has an awful track record with 3rd party support & i am sure the only reason these vehicles are not shipping with it enabled is because BMW chose not to do it.

You don’t know what you’re talking about. BMW was the first manufacturer to support CarPlay over Bluetooth, and now the first to support CarKey. It’s also perfectly believable that they had to switch to different silicon for portions of their audio and console modules given the overall industry situation, and as such need extra time to develop and qualify their code for that change. They obviously “chose” to do this because they aren’t going to stop shipping vehicles entirely because of one software feature like this being delayed. Many other manufacturers are having to make similarly difficult choices right now, including Ford, GM, and others.

Poor knock of B&O products?
Oeplay vs Beoplay?

https://www.bang-olufsen.com/en/us/speakers/beoplay-a9

macgui said:

After being separated from its parent iPhone for a prescribed period of time, an AirTag is supposed to start beeping. It'll take a very quiet room and somebody with good to very good hearing to detect the beeps, unlike a phone or an iPad.

But the guy found his luggage. Who knows if or when someone would get around to trying to clean up the office and get luggage back to owners. It's a credit to Swissport and/or the airport that he got close enough to zero in on his bag.

I do not believe there is any function (currently) in the AirTag to have it automatically beep when it is out of range of its parent device.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210967


It will utilize any Apple device within range to report its location.

The Find My network is approaching a billion Apple devices and can detect Bluetooth signals from a lost AirTag and relay the location back to its owner, all in the background, anonymously and privately.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/04/apple-introduces-airtag/



The owner of the AirTag can be 10,000 miles away & another iOS device walks past their lost AirTag & the AirTag will phone home & report its location.

AirTags & the "FindMy" network works *in spite* of the inadequacies of Swissport/the airport.
There is absolutely no credit due to the airline - this person got their luggage back because they had a system (AirTags) better than the airlines.


I have found Tile better for forgetting your keys/wallet/phone when leaving a place (more robustly developed software) but AirTags better for tracking non-personal sized items (cars, bicycles, cameras).

The robustness of the Find My network & overwhelming number of people using iOS (vs the Tile app) means that i have no problem tracking my bicycle being ridden miles away across the city, 

robin huber said:

So easily lost, this device should come with AirTag hardware built in. 

Would anyone really be surprised if >50% of Twitter accounts were not "fake" "spam" "bots" "non-human"?

He didnt expect the Tesla stock hit, so his $44 billion in funding suddenly represented a majority of his on-paper fortune.
Hopefully Twitter holds out for the $1 billion payment from him if he does back out.


One of the most immediate fixes social media could implement is human-backed accounts.