Apple Introduces AirTag

Re:Apple Introduces AirTag by justapassenger on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @06:28PM (#26882727)

While it seems like a good product, let’s put things into perspective of big tech.

Platform owner, that has deep insights into other products on it, and their revenue, is creating competing product, that’s utilizing api and privileges that others cannot. And utilizing platform they own to push this product to users, without having to pay for it.

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Re:Apple Introduces AirTag by wallwarp on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @07:50PM (#26883534)

I do wish it would’ve been open-sourced and used cross-platform.

also > that’s utilizing api and privileges that others cannot

Apple is allowing third party device makers to integrate with the find my system. What’s the difference between apple

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Re:Apple Introduces AirTag by justapassenger on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @08:04PM (#26883661)

There’s much more than just find my. For a start, other apps can’t really run in background, and can’t get reliable access to location, that’s crucial for something like this (even if you allow app to access your location, iOS will still keep on asking users periodically to disable it).

All of those things are done for good of the platform, to limit abuse form other apps, sure. But it’s also conveniently giving apple’s products unfair advantage.

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