I have a couple dogs 1 and 2 years old. If I stand around my place looking confused, dogs will do the same. Need to poop? Dogs need to be there as witnesses. Sitting on couch? Dogs need to be on either side of you. In kitchen? Dogs watch from edge. Have to leave? Dogs stare sadly out of window knowing full well they would ride or die with you lol

Not an android experience but I used to have a phone that would occasionally show me notification ads for apps I don't have installed. Verizon pushed those ads from an app that I couldn't uninstall without jailbreaking my phone

Actually giving people what they are looking for instead of what the advertisers or SEOsters push will be good for people and bad for profit

I had a Fi collar. I replaced it with an AirTag because I found the AirTag to be better in almost all cases.

Battery lasts for better part of a year. There’s no subscription fee. Range is better (this surprised me; my dog goes to a daycare where the fi collar had no cell coverage, but with the AirTag, I see his location reported there on a regular interval)

There are now also a number of “Find My” enabled collars which are basically the exact same thing as an AirTag. The only thing you don’t get is the precision finding when you’re nearby (which to be honest, is pointless for pets).

Domestic violence situations come to mind. Carry this tracker or I'll beat the shit out of you.

edit: Domestic violence is brought up in the article.

It still functions just fine for such use, but if you live in a household with multiple iPhones, it can be annoying when you’re traveling alone with the pet.

If the device the AirTag is associated to is with you when you travel, it’s not an issue.

Hopefully associating AirTags to iCloud family is high on their list. There’s a lot of other cases where this is an issue (ex: using it on a vehicle fob/keychain that’s shared)

Pretty sure you get the option after dismissing the prompt a handful of times to no longer get notifications for that specific object.

We have two AirTags on our dog, and while we had that prompt at first that is no longer the case.

How is that different from your partner keys? Do you get alerted every time you drive together to Costco?

AirTags can't be used for stalking

or

AirTags can be shared with other people

Pick one.

Sharing AirTags creates a new situation where a woman could be forcibly stalked by their spouse that controls the Apple ID. You're basically creating an entirely new class of stalking, not to solve a problem, but to add a feature.

Yeah works on mine

We have a GPS tracker, but also have an AirTag on his collar now. The GPS is fine for general location, but when our dog got out in our neighborhood at night, black dog, I would have liked a little finer tracking, which I hope the AirTag will provide if it happens again.

Airtags aren't pet trackers.

Buy a Fi collar. We have one. Pet trackers are a totally different product category.

This is like a complaining because the off-road capabilities for your Toyota Camry are sub-par. It's like complaining about the 0-60 or cornering performance of your trail-rated jeep.

Protip: Using products for things they aren't meant for can yield poor results.

You too? It’s annoying but I get it has to be adjusted.

I genuinely wish that to be true. However, the switch graphics chip is a rebrand Nvidia shield. Unless they got Nvidia or amd to make a modern chip. I have my doubts.

"I'm sorry Dave, I can't open the pod bay doors."

Corporate america, full of dumb slime bucket pigs, what else is new?

They are correct. The dog is stalking you... It's a dog

So glad he's focused on the really big issues ... fucking fuckwad.

This happened to me recently with Firefox actually. Had the Verge open overnight using 44GB RAM.

Still brainstorming, another idea I'm thinking through is telling the app said tracker is permitted. How is a good question. Either...

A. I would hold the tracker in question, hit the button on the tracker when the screen prompts, and permits it to be near you. That way the user can't ignore all of them, and not be aware of the tracking, and the user knows exactly where the tracker is physically.

B. I could permit the tracker, but I have the enter the tracker owner's ID (email address or something). Again, allows the user to permit the tracker, and there's still no question that the user knows of the tracker, and who it belongs to.

>Plus the article says it's registered to the author's partner so please lend me an arm, I gotta facepalm.

that's the root of the issue here. There should be a way to share AirTags with family.

The account linking would be the solution but it doesn't exist yet.

Or you could just buy company shares and get paid for taking a shit.

I haven't had an Apple phone since the 3G way back in 2009, so my understanding is well out of date.

Can you not "link" two accounts together to show both are related/together/married/etc. for stuff like this?

I'd hate to be walking around my own house, and be notified I'm stalked by my wife's purse.

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