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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: 0.509s | source
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jmull ◴[19 Dec 24 19:42 UTC] No.42465013[source]▶
I know this is useful (for something), but I'm stuck on the plot holes in the motivating story...

Why didn't they replace the battery when the app complained?

How long would a thief really keep the AirTag anyway?

If the thief did keep the AirTag and you tracked them down, then what? A confrontation has a fairly high chance to have a worse result than losing some equipment. You could try to get the police to do it, but that's going to take more time, during which the thief is even more likely to ditch the AirTag.

Anyway, you're really swimming upstream trying to think of aigtags as an antitheft device. They're really for something lost, not stolen. Generally, they are specifically designed to not work well in adversarial situations.

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1. KaiserPro ◴[20 Dec 24 10:09 UTC] No.42469724[source]▶
> Why didn't they replace the battery when the app complained?

because life gets in the way. You have a bunch of batteries and forget where you put them, or you walk inside and get distracted.

I have a tag in my suitcase, which is/has run out of battery. I dont use it that often, so I should really replace it. but I have forgotten.