Re:Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking al...
by stephenr on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @01:35AM
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I don't know where you live but that isn't at all true anywhere I've lived.
I've had two reasons to need to "find" things with AirTags where I specifically didn't know where they were:
- airline bungle, so luggage was left at a transit airport.
- forgetting where something had been put down.
But the most common usage is the opposite, positive confirmation: we've just left for the airport, check if everything says "with you" once you're a few hundred meters down the road.
If the most likely reason for something to be "lost" is that it was stolen, maybe you should move somewhere with a less than apocalyptic level of petty crime.
I've had two reasons to need to "find" things with AirTags where I specifically didn't know where they were:
- airline bungle, so luggage was left at a transit airport.
- forgetting where something had been put down.
But the most common usage is the opposite, positive confirmation: we've just left for the airport, check if everything says "with you" once you're a few hundred meters down the road.
If the most likely reason for something to be "lost" is that it was stolen, maybe you should move somewhere with a less than apocalyptic level of petty crime.