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A 10-Year Battery for AirTag

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673 points dmd | 1 comments | 18 Dec 24 18:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | 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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1. csomar ◴[20 Dec 24 03:47 UTC] No.42468101[source]▶
While Apple products become obsolete, they are not exactly killed. i.e. your 15 year old macbook still functions but is limited. The air tag is a bit different because deprecating the protocol essentially kills it completely.

I highly doubt they do that unless they are remove airtags completely from their product line.