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A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

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672 points dmd | 1 comments | 18 Dec 24 18:17 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jerlam ◴[18 Dec 24 22:10 UTC] No.42456019[source]▶
Not a bad price, but it does require an existing Airtag.

Ten years is a very long time in tech. I wouldn't be confident that the Airtag protocol will be functioning in 2035, and there are already rumors of a new Airtag and possibly a newer protocol coming up.

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spiderfarmer ◴[19 Dec 24 07:39 UTC] No.42459310[source]▶
If Apple kills existing Airtags any time soon they effectively kill the product line. So they won’t.
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1. makeitdouble ◴[20 Dec 24 02:04 UTC] No.42467600[source]▶
If the product line stops making sense or enough money they'll kill it. They're no Google, but it won't be the first product line that goes belly up.

The best scenario would be an industry standard that is widely more interesting than AirTags and works around the current compromises, letting Apple expand support to a wider audience. E.g. if the stalking problem had an elegant solution.