Android users are getting AirTag alerts starting this month.
Also, Android users will soon begin seeing notifications for unknown item trackers that are traveling with them — no separate app downloads or installs required.
Google and Apple have built out their own private ‘little internet’ by turning the users of their products into their own personal nodes that they have access to and control.
… and Amazon ( https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Sidewalk/ ) though we tend not to talk about that as much because we don’t walk around with the devices in our pockets.
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Google and Apple have built out their own private ‘little internet’ by turning the users of their products into their own personal nodes that they have access to and control.
… and Amazon ( https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Sidewalk/ ) though we tend not to talk about that as much because we don’t walk around with the devices in our pockets.
And yes, it has tracking capability too - https://support.thetileapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500009711121-Tile-Amazon-Sidewalk
And thank god for that, because it helped me find my lost AirPods when I wasn’t quite sure where I left them out and about.