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Apple says it spent three years trying to bring Apple Watch to Android - 9to5Mac (9to5mac.com)

submitted 8 months ago by flop_leash_973@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

And they're been taking more than a year to implement stalking detection for Android's AirTag equivalent, and it's still not done. The final spec came out in December, but it's being available to Apple since they announced it in Spring 2023.

https://www.androidauthority.com/apple-delaying-android-airtag-find-my-device-network-3425394/

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I really like Air guard for this. It's on F-Droid.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

That's only for AirTags tho, not Google's version that is supposedly coming soon.

[–] lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I suppose support for those would be added promptly, seeing as it currently supports Tiles, Chipolos and Smartthings Tags (Samsung's equivalent)

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I'm talking about iOS not currently detecting the upcoming trackers compatible with Google's Find My Device network, which is delaying Google's deployment (Google's justification is that they don't want to release the product unless iOS can detect them).

[–] lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago

Oh sorry my bad!

In that case, I think it's pretty poor that Apple hasn't made any progress on this after having the specs available for so long, also considering you can already get your hands on third party Android apps that can arbitrarily use BLE to detect all kinds of nearby devices.

To me it feels like Apple is trying to saturate as much of the market as they can before they bake in support for third party tracker detection