alt Hacker News> They don’t talk about theft prevention or finding pets or anything.
In particular I'm guessing you can't use it to track your kid's backpack either; for that, you should instead buy your 7yo their own iPhone.
> Gotta go for a mini GPS tracker or something for protecting $$$$(+) bikes
The same one actual stalkers would use?
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kalleboo • yesterday at 7:53 AM
They've set the nuisance limits just high enough that they work for tracking your kids, I think it has to be away from the owner for 24 hours
dwaite • yesterday at 6:41 AM
> In particular I'm guessing you can't use it to track your kid's backpack either; for that, you should instead buy your 7yo their own iPhone.
You can - there will be spurious phone notifications and audible notifications.
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>The same one actual stalkers would use?
Right, like “cut your dinner with a knife, the one actual murderers would use.”
They had to balance needs of us owners of things and needs of abused partners and the general public. Other trackers have been available long long before AirTags and haven’t gone away since Apple’s introduction.
As it stands, plenty are still very upset about the existence of AirTags. Especially given the ease of disabling the speaker and the lack of Android notifications at launch.