Mac4mac said:

You do know Apple themselves use the devices, not to hack, but to “device to device” copy. 

Obviously the software may not be exactly the same. There’s an irony in there somewhere! 

Yes apple (well one of it's shell companies) 100% does have at least one of these. They use it to learn of the exploits Cellebrite is using so they can fix them.

bageljoey said:

Interesting. I’m sure there are huge numbers of people who would like to be able to request this privacy option…

They can

https://mashable.com/article/how-to-blur-your-house-on-google-street-view

narwhal said:

Too bad for Tile. About the only way they can compete with Apple's AirTag is to drop their price dramatically and launch a massive ad campaign. Apple devices that can track AirTags are ubiquitous; phones running the Tiles app are not.

Well except that airtags do not work with Android and other non apple devices. There are 3 billion active android devices so there is a big market left for tile/life360. It also works with Amazon Sidewalk. There is also Tile embedded , which works with Bluetooth chip manufactures and allows lots of other devices (HP laptops, Fitbits, Headphone, battery packs etc) to track tiles and of course tile works with iOS devices too so, there is really is no down side in having a tile device. Maybe they will decide to join apples Find my network, but I bet the terms make it not worth it. Hopefully life360 can do a good job marketing Tile because apple needs competition. 

wood1208 said:

Welcome news. Almost all router companies support WiFi 6E in their routers,

Actually 6E is just coming to routers and they are very $$$$. 6E gives access to the 6GHZ spectrum and does not up the speed of wifi 6, though you will see speed increase in areas were there is a lot of 2.4/5ghz congestion. This is not the new version of Wigig (802.11ay) which runs in the 60ghz spectrum and is crazy fast 20–40Gbit/s per stream, 4 streams can be bonded for a max of 176Gbit/s but needs line of sight. That's used for video casting and VR transmission from computer to HMD but does not have much adoption yet.

georgie01 said:

I’ve never been a fan of the right to repair movement because I think it’s totally fine for Apple to want to protect their reputation by trying to ensure some level of repair quality.

But for some reason I’m totally in favour of this! Genuine Apple parts and presumably cheaper than taking it to an Apple Store.

Right, the risk is the dumb users will destroy things and blame Apple as always.

Users should be able to do what ever they want with the hardware they purchased. Does apple have to support this? No, but apple should not "lock" things to make it impossible to fix like they were trying to do with the iPhone 13 screen & faceID lock.