Comment by WheatMillington

14 hours ago

How would airtags work as theft prevention? Airtags only enter the equation once something has already been stolen.

Setting expectations and thinning the herd. If even half of items had a well hidden air tag, and the cops successfully followed up even half of tagged thefts:

There would a. be less dumb criminals around to repeat offend and b. The smarter would-be criminals will do the calculus and and not steal items which could have tags.