AirTags, Will you be using them?

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It doesn’t have to beep to find it, your phone can just guide you

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I’m not sure it will ever start beeping if it’s stationary. But even if it does, owner would have to be away from it for 3 days before it started beeping.

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Yes, doesn’t it actually only start beeping on its own if it finds itself moving about with another iPhone?

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Without another iPhone it starts beeping. With the iPhone it shows an alert after 2 hours

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This is more of a review of knockoff AirTag (I find it strange that even weeks after release, autocorrect doesn’t know the name; it usually corrects all Apple products) accessories.

I ordered a silicone pouch from Amazon which is great, and protects most of the AirTag (there’s only a tiny front cutout). But it’s made of that awful soft silicone Apple like and attracts so much lint

I also ordered a cheap Apple leather keychain knockoff from eBay. It’s not great quality, but it isn’t a lint magnet. It also exposes a lot more of the AirTag so I’m expecting scratches galore

Oh well, can’t really complain for the price I paid

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Interesting that… I’ve just been spending the last day or two 3D printing my own air tag cases :smiley: Didn’t even thing of an apple remote one, that’s genius!

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I’m going to put money on this being redundant in the near future, and the Apple Remote already having “Find My” internals built in.

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Tip: add it to your cheques before you send to Monzo.

JOKES BEFORE I GET SLAUGHTERED.

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I was going to post this a couple of days ago after the cuff links chat. £1.95 for the schematics. Or you can just design your own!

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I said the same a while ago! New Monzo Plus feature? Each user gets an envelope with a custom AirTag pocket for posting cheques

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Buy AirTag. Put in envelope with cheque. Include SAE. Wait for AirTag to be in the building then harass them about why it hasn’t been sent back yet.

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Take AirTag out, send that back to stop the harassment, misplace the cheque. :joy:

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I hear with Starling they have AirTag imaging. You just take a picture of the airtag and it tracks it on it’s way to Starling HQ

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Chipolo one spot now available for preorder.

£1 cheaper than airtag (lol).

Only IPX5 to the airtag’s IP67 dust/water resistance.

Slightly larger circle 38mm to 32mm airtag, but slightly less thick at 6.4mm to 8mm airtag.

So need to decide if keyring hole is worth more than ‘full’ water resistance.

Edit: honestly incredible that Apple are allowing find my integration and U1 chip use too and therefore airtag is just going to be one of a number of near identical trackers all utilising the underlying tech by the end of the year.

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Any thoughts on this -

Apple like to claim users are not the product (unlike with Google, Facebook, etc). Now that Apple are using all iPhone users as nodes in the Find my network (basically the main selling point of Airtags) are they still entitled to make this claim?

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I think it’s so that Tile and Co can’t argue that Apple are anticompetitive and forcing them out of business.

This is a very good video on it:

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Yeah I’m sure it is.

Still think it’s quite incredible (as in, not benevolent…just not a situation I ever thought we’d see) that Apple are doing it, especially proactively and given how happy they are to fight such allegations in other areas.

I would say yes. My being is a user isn’t specifically benefiting Apple here. Their maps data has been crowd sourcing from us for years now, but in a totally anonymous fashion (there’s an incredible write up on how they did it which I’ll try find).

So I would say it’s not like ‘I’m’ a product. Their product is stronger for having more users to get either anonymous data from, or act as an anonymous node in the network, but I don’t think that makes me a product - and certainly not in the same way that using Google and Facebook does.

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For me, being the product in those instances means having my personal data (age, sex, sexual orientation, interests, places I’ve visited, soon probably my thoughts too) sold to advertisers and other, shadier organisations

Apple doesn’t do that. If my device needs to be a node in a vast tracking network to improve it; and it’s done in an anonymous and imperceptible way, I am all for it. I’d expect Google and co to ask for location permissions for similar services

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