AirTag 2 not expected until 2025 as Apple sits on backlog of first-gen inventory - 9to5Mac
9to5mac.com
If you’ve been hoping for a second-generation AirTag, you’ll have to keep waiting. According to a new report from Bloomberg,...

AirTag 2 not expected until 2025 as Apple sits on backlog of first-gen inventory::If you’ve been hoping for a second-generation AirTag, you’ll have to keep waiting. According to a new report from Bloomberg,…

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    11 months ago

    Tiles are fine for stuff around the house, but if you leave something out in the wild, that’s where they shit the bed. Tile’s tracking network is dependent upon people willingly installing the Tile app. Apple’s FindMy network was deployed via an OS release that most iPhones auto updated to.

    Google is about to follow Apple’s lead and bake something into Android. Once that happens, Tile is up shit creek. They will have the worst tracking network on both iOS and Android.

    • JimmyMcGill@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      11 months ago

      Yea and I’ll tell you that Tile is far from working because I have never heard of Tile.

      And I own a few AirTags myself

      • ramjambamalamEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        Tile is basically the original tracking device and predates AirTags by about 8 years.

        • JimmyMcGill@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          My point is that if tile requires people to have the app installed to broadcast it, and I, someone that has multiple AirTags has never heard of Tile let alone have the app installed, then it’s fair to say a significant amount of the population hasn’t either so their network has major gaps.

          I don’t doubt that the device itself is capable or anything. But if you aren’t apple it’s just hard to get to that critical mass of users.