Comment by Wowfunhappy
2 years ago
Yes, but isn't that an example of Apple giving special privileges to their own product? How would Tile go about doing this?
2 years ago
Yes, but isn't that an example of Apple giving special privileges to their own product? How would Tile go about doing this?
What functionality that Apple has are you suggesting be extended to Tile?
Access to the U1 chip? They can do that.
Show up in Find My? Let's get some standards for secure and authenticated transmission of item location to other parties.
Have Apple's phones automatically detect 3rd party BTLE products and report their whereabouts to a 3rd party? This is a privacy nightmare. Side note - why Apple's phones? How about a patch to Android too?
Something else?
From OOP,
> Apple stopped making it easy for apps to get permanent access to a user's location.
> The main points of differentiation of AirTags vis a vis Tile are enabled by platform capabilities that we don't have access to.
Apple makes it easy for their product (AirTags) to have always on location permissions. Apple makes it hard for their competitor (Tile) to have always on location permissions.
Apple is using their ecosystem to advantage their AirTag business instead of competing on the same playing field as Tile.
You are asking to have Apple pick up random BLE messages and send them to various 3rd party vendors with corresponding location information?
Does Tile have a secure way of receiving those messages that does not compromise the security and anonymity (exposing the identity of either the device or the receiver, or the location of either) of the person whose device picked up the message so that this can be implemented in Android core and Apple?
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