george kaplan

There are some very sad members of the He-Man Woman Haters Club working through their social awkwardness in this thread.

Deeply detailed date rape/cheating girlfriend scenarios are reminiscent of OJ’s famous “if I had killed Nicole, this is how I would have done it” musings.

rynoyes said:

MustSeeUHDTV said:

Hum.....so if someone stole like a bicycle with an AirTag and they had an iPhone, would they “receive a notification that an unknown AirTag has been following them”?

Yeah and they would find the air tag and chunk it in the trash.  So it’s useless.  Just use a tile.

This is a terrible take.

The notification wouldn’t happen for 3 days, so someone who has stolen your bike wouldn’t be alerted to the presence of your AirTag until then.

But this  completely obscures the point: This isn’t a $29 LoJack, it is a widget for finding misplaced items. The fact that Apple thought through the potential for abuse of the locator means this is more valuable—not less—than a Tile locator.

In addition, Tile has never lived up to the potential it held since its crowdfunded origin. Tile depends upon a built base of users to get notifications of lost items. AirTags steps into the arena with 1 billion potential assistants to locate an item attached to an AirTag.

I’ve used Tile for years, but I am done with mediocre results with lost items. If you’re happy with Tile, god bless you. I am using AirTags when they become available until such time as I am as disappointed with them as I am with Tile.

It isn’t coincidence that Apple is making clear the features in AirTags which aren’t a part of Tile, on the eve of supposed Congressional hearings to determine if there has been anticompetitive behavior.

Tile can claim day and night they are being Sherlocked, but unless they can show similar care in protecting the security of those who may unwittingly be tracked with Tile beacons, then there isn’t much to complain about.

I guess Molekule didn’t have a design patent on the look of the leather strap connected to the cylindrical air purifier...

The 4/20 start date is the best part of the joke.