- One Redditor tested Google’s Find My Device network against Apple’s Find My Network by shipping an AirTag and a Pebblebee tracker to a different state and tracking the package through the respective apps.
- The Pebblebee Tracker struggled to provide location updates, while Apple’s AirTag consistently updated throughout the journey.
- Google’s Find My Device network is still nascent and opt-in, limiting its effectiveness compared to Apple’s Find My Network. Google is reportedly working on improving its network’s speed and reliability.
Worst possible experience, not hardly. He mailed the thing and tried to track it, and it didn’t work. When I saw “worst possible experience” I expected a swat raid or something. This is 2024, and if all that goes wrong with a new tech gadget is that it doesn’t work, that’s literally a nothingburger. At least give us some battery explosions or something.
Obligatory: https://biggaybunny.tumblr.com/post/166787080920/tech-enthusiasts-everything-in-my-house-is-wired
Exactly. Worst case for me is a stalker of some sort tracking me through my phone and sexually assaulting me in a parking garage or something when I’m alone.
battery explosions
Samsung: “introducing our new tracking devices!”
“Says here my courier’s delivered it to the emergency ward”
“Redditor uses service that no one really uses yet, resulting in competing service that everyone defaults to using being better.”
How could this be?
One of worlds largest companies, can’t even afford to fund a project to make it competitive and attract users to grow it.
Are you aware of Google’s track record of products that have success? The graveyard would make Stalin blush.
Still annoyed that tile has not committed to making their devices compatible with this and rather want to push that life360 rubbish, which openly sells user data.
People only really went with their product because something first party didn’t exist, now their service will get worse as people start adopting this over their service and they turn all their trackers into e-waste—because trackers without a good enough network are kind of useless
opt-in
I tried opting-out. There’s no way to do this account wide; the setting has to be changed per-device. I didn’t really like that.
I use GrapheneOS, so it just doesn’t exist on my phone at all. I want nothing to do with this feature whatsoever.
Because Google decided to make it opt-in and by default also to send data only in crowded places.
They said it’s because they care about privacy. But because it’s Google and we all know they don’t care a bit about privacyI wonder instead if it’s because keeping track of billions of devices it’s expensive and requires many servers, so it’s a cost cutting measure
It only proves how dystopian our present time is with how easily and accurately something can be tracked
