AirTag 2 not expected until 2025 as Apple sits on backlog of first-gen inventory - 9to5Mac
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If you’ve been hoping for a second-generation AirTag, you’ll have to keep waiting. According to a new report from Bloomberg,...

AirTag 2 not expected until 2025 as Apple sits on backlog of first-gen inventory::If you’ve been hoping for a second-generation AirTag, you’ll have to keep waiting. According to a new report from Bloomberg,…

  • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
    112·
    6 months ago

    I don’t know how that could possibly been seen as an “upgrade”.

    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      6 months ago

      Yeah, it’s a stretch for sure.

      That said, because the tracking network is way broader than the other BT trackers, so stalkers love use and mod these little things. And they’re very un-Apple like, in that they’re easy to open up.

      Stalking has been the one thing that AirTags constantly get slammed for in the press about. I wouldn’t be surprised if they sold an updated tracker that was sealed, packed full of resin, and marketed as “more secure.”

      • Ross_audio@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        6 months ago

        There are plenty of waterproof devices with replaceable batteries.

        The idea you have to seal in the battery (and the device goes to landfill instead of getting a replacement) is a myth.

        • lepinkainen@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          6 months ago

          Of course it can be made waterproof with a replaceable battery, but would you trust your grandma to swap such a battery so that it stays waterproof?

          Would you want to be the customer support for a device like that with a billion users? The amount of idiots failing to close the case properly and drowning their device is staggering, and the idiots are usually the ones who call CS to complain…