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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,…

  • Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    6910·
    10 months ago

    Remember this is Apple we’re talking about. Gen 2 will introduce additional form factors and fanboys will call it “game changing”, “amazing”, and god knows what else.

        • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          10 months ago

          Honestly, there aren’t a lot of credit card sized trackers with a good tracking. Chipolo recently launched one with Find My support, but from what I can tell, most other credit card trackers are on pretty small networks.

            • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              10 months ago

              I was using those for the better part of a decade. Cut over to the AirTags recently. The tracking network is night and day.

              If Google’s rumored tracker launches as expected this year, and Android is also has a core tracking service that doesn’t require a third party app install, Tile’s days are numbered.

    • Munkisquisher@lemmy.nzEnglish
      415·
      10 months ago

      Next version will make the current generation cease working, even though there’s nothing wrong with the hardware

      • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
        132·
        10 months ago

        Isn’t apple quite good at supporting old products?

        • meyotch@slrpnk.netEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          Yes, vastly better on the average compared to PC makers and other phone makers. Having worked at an Apple Store once upon a time, we were happy to help the technically-savvy keep ancient stuff working if they had a need, but no way would we take the time to help a typical tech-phobe granny get one last year out of unsupported hardware. Granny gets a new mac that ‘just works’! It’s just basic business, a different solution might work better for different customers.

      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        10 months ago

        Of all the things to criticise Apple on (and boy are there a lot of those), software support isn’t one of them, particularly in their mobile division.

        • Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          23·
          10 months ago

          I think the rub is how they’re happy to obsolete hardware and make customers re-buy accessories. That’s tenuous here for sure.

          • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            31·
            10 months ago

            As I understood it, removing the headphone jack was supposed to allow for higher water resistance. I don’t know if that is completely accurate, but that was part of the pitch at the time, and seeing how other manufacturers followed suit, it seems like there must have been some design benefit to it. I get the annoyance, but at least there is some logic other than money grubbing at play.

            And the switch to USB-C was to comply with the evolving laws in Europe—can’t really blame Apple for that, and the move was probably good in the long run.

            Apple isn’t perfect, but your complaints here are a bit off base.