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AirTag stalking protection is live on Android — here’s how to set it up(www.tomsguide.com)

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Moonrise2473@feddit.it
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Apple created an app to detect airtags for Android but…

  1. It takes 2 full minutes to do a scan (only manual scans are supported)

  2. For some reason you need to wait a timer of TEN FUCKING MINUTES before make the tracker beep (close the app and you need to wait the ten minutes again)

It’s the most minimum viable product that they could ship, I think the long waits are all artificial because there’s no way that someone actually waits all that time each time that wants to check if he’s stalked by an airtag. It’s clearly designed for compliance “see? We made a detection app for Android users” and not for being actually used

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avogadro@lemmy.world
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Any form of Android compatibility must be maximally enshittified to encourage switching – see iMessage. Unless of course it generates revenue for Apple – see Apple Music. Not being stalked/murdered using Air Tags does not generate revenue for Apple: next time buy an iPhone.

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NightOwl@lemmy.one
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Including the most basic task of plugging in an Android phone to access files on MacOS. It just works on Linux or Windows, but with MacOS I had to go the extra step of having to download and install Android File Transfer. And then wasn’t even able to preview pics from the phone storage and had to move the files to the PC.

Apple probably wants people to go I should get an iPhone. But, given the experience of how it just works on Windows and Linux my thought was wow Apple is shit at compatability with everything that isn’t Apple.

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Whirlybird@aussie.zone
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Most people aren’t plugging their phones into their computers. I’m an IT guy and I’ve never plugged my iPhones into my pc, nor the last 5+ android phones.

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Whirlybird@aussie.zone
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Google do it to some as well so they’re just playing the same game.

See Picture in Picture - it’s an OS level greater yet google went out of their way to disable it for YouTube so they could sell it to you via YouTube premium.

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gahedros@lemmy.world
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The waits are by design. Without them, it would be trivial to find an airtag in something you are going to steal and remove it.

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natanael@lemmy.ml
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As long as the protocol on the device allows it you can just mod the app to do it quicker

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