Apple Releases “Find My AirPods” Feature For Locating Lost Earbuds

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You didn’t think Apple would have been stupid enough to kill off that poor guy’s “Finder for AirPods” app if they didn’t have their own version in the works, did you? Well, now it’s here, and it happens to be a branch of the staple “Find my iPhone” app. Unfortunately, it will only be able to pick up a lost AirPod if it’s within 10 meters of your location (remember, we’re talking Bluetooth here), so you may be screwed in those situations where you lose it outside and don’t realize it until much later.

The feature lives inside Apple’s Find my iPhone app, which allows users to locate their missing iOS devices on a Map via iCloud and a standalone iOS app. But since the AirPods rely on Bluetooth connectivity, it will only be able to locate the AirPods if they are in range of your other Apple devices. So, if you happen to lose one and don’t realize until after, you’d have to walk back in range in order to get a hit on the map. With Bluetooth, you can potentially get up to 5-10 meters of range. The app will also allow you to play a sound from the AirPods that will help you locate one that is out of sight, which will probably be much more useful than the map feature that only gives you a very general location if in range. You can disable the sound for one AirPod, which can be handy if you only lose one and not the other.
 
scojer said:
Did they courageously come up with this after he did? Or was This truly in the works before?
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It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure I recall the Apple App store t&c's dictate you're not allowed to release an app that duplicates an existing iOS or Apple feature. So I'm guessing the app this guy wrote was pulled under that clause.
 
Apple? Is that the company that made a fortune with the iphone years ago but failed to innovate anything ever since and will soon fade into insignificance? That Apple?
 
Why cant they also just log where the phone was the last time they were paired...
 
The funny part is that could have just left the original guy's app alone since everyone would choose the apple version anyway. All they accomplished was making themselves look bad.
 
Wrecked Em said:
The funny part is that could have just left the original guy's app alone since everyone would choose the apple version anyway. All they accomplished was making themselves look bad.
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I don't agree here. If they have apps in their store that directly duplicate features of the OS that are offered for free, they'll catch even more bad press for allowing him to profit off user's ignorance.
 
davethehedgehog said:
It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure I recall the Apple App store t&c's dictate you're not allowed to release an app that duplicates an existing iOS or Apple feature. So I'm guessing the app this guy wrote was pulled under that clause.
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otherweeb said:
Sounds vaguely familiar..... :wink:

I'm sure he signed his rights away in the agreement to put it on the app store in the first place.
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I can see a very strong lawsuit being brought up here as the guy released it BEFORE it was a feature. Also in this "free market" i would think this is very anti-competitive and probably illegal.
 
Bandalo said:
... they'll catch even more bad press for allowing him to profit off user's ignorance.
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Which is the very definition of consumerism. Also, the mantra behind IT. We make shit tons of money of other peoples' ignorance.
 
Wrecked Em said:
The funny part is that could have just left the original guy's app alone since everyone would choose the apple version anyway. All they accomplished was making themselves look bad.
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I get it, you hate apple, it was already in the works, if they left that guys app and somehow it steals someone's data/just flat out messing up their iOS device's, Joe public will sue apple
captaindiptoad said:
I can see a very strong lawsuit being brought up here as the guy released it BEFORE it was a feature. Also in this "free market" i would think this is very anti-competitive and probably illegal.
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lmao, companies have rules just like hard forum, you can't duplicate an iOS future and sell it, it is against TOS.
 
It is moments like these that I appreciate the advanced design features of my own ear buds. They never fall out of my ear without my noticing as they have a built in strap, they never have to be charged, they don't require any special software to locate because I put shit away and I got all these amazing features for $30. I mean the manufacturer of mine was so forward thinking and ahead of their time it just blows my mind.
 
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Megalith said:
You didn’t think Apple would have been stupid enough to kill off that poor guy’s “Finder for AirPods” app if they didn’t have their own version in the works, did you? Well, now it’s here, and it happens to be a branch of the staple “Find my iPhone” app. Unfortunately, it will only be able to pick up a lost AirPod if it’s within 10 meters of your location (remember, we’re talking Bluetooth here), so you may be screwed in those situations where you lose it outside and don’t realize it until much later.
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Bah! You're an Apple fan! That means you're loaded with money! That's why you spent $160 on something you could have had for $20 that would've come attached to a "security wire" so you wouldn't lose just one of them. What's another $65 for a replacement to likes of you? That's pocket change.
 
Wrecked Em said:
The funny part is that could have just left the original guy's app alone since everyone would choose the apple version anyway. All they accomplished was making themselves look bad.
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Apple fandom is devoted and loyal
Apple could shit in the mouth of most of its consumers and they would argue to you how it's better than your pleb food.
Apple users who do not code or edit/create media are usually lazy or ignorant

Detecting when a device breaks range though really is a great idea
 
Deathroned said:
I get it, you hate apple, it was already in the works, if they left that guys app and somehow it steals someone's data/just flat out messing up their iOS device's, Joe public will sue apple

lmao, companies have rules just like hard forum, you can't duplicate an iOS future and sell it, it is against TOS.
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Do you even english?

he released it BEFORE it was a feature, that would mean apple duplicated HIS feature.

You work at a telemarketing company dont you.
 
Deathroned said:
I get it, you hate apple, it was already in the works, if they left that guys app and somehow it steals someone's data/just flat out messing up their iOS device's, Joe public will sue apple
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Wouldn't that argument stand for any 3rd party app? So it's not an argument against this app really.
lmao, companies have rules just like hard forum, you can't duplicate an iOS future and sell it, it is against TOS.
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Yeah lmao, it wasn't yet a feature when they removed the app, so how was it against the TOS?
By that standard apple could claim "Bah we'were thinking of adding that feature way before you, we just didn't get around to adding it"
Megalith said:
You didn’t think Apple would have been stupid enough to kill off that poor guy’s “Finder for AirPods” app if they didn’t have their own version in the works, did you?
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Or they simply saw the app, and how useful it was, and started creating their own version after the fact.
 
Isn't this against free market somehow?
If you want to compete within the service of a service provider, I'd think that the service provider still has some restrictions to what it can do with your content. If your content is not illegal, etc.
Also, who thinks that the guy couldn't keep his app one step ahead of Apple's finder, one way or another? We'll never know now.

Being douche to customers is one thing, but being douche to the guys who make your products/services more enjoyable whilst playing by your rules is a whole new level of douchebaggery.
 
Suck the life out of innovation. It's all going to go stagnant. Sycophantic Press, its mostly your fault.
 
davethehedgehog said:
It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure I recall the Apple App store t&c's dictate you're not allowed to release an app that duplicates an existing iOS or Apple feature. So I'm guessing the app this guy wrote was pulled under that clause.
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From what I can tell it didn't exist at the time.
 
finally a chance to use this

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This is very confusing. Which misconception does this represent? That everyone stole from apple, or that apple has stolen from everyone? Cause I've seen both crop up.
 
captaindiptoad said:
Do you even english?

he released it BEFORE it was a feature, that would mean apple duplicated HIS feature.

You work at a telemarketing company dont you.
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Nope

M76 said:
Wouldn't that argument stand for any 3rd party app? So it's not an argument against this app really.

Yeah lmao, it wasn't yet a feature when they removed the app, so how was it against the TOS?
By that standard apple could claim "Bah we'were thinking of adding that feature way before you, we just didn't get around to adding it"

Or they simply saw the app, and how useful it was, and started creating their own version after the fact.
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There is thing called testing an app and making sure it functions properly try it sometimes it works, since apple takes pride in their apps.
 
Deathroned said:
Nope


There is thing called testing an app and making sure it functions properly try it sometimes it works, since apple takes pride in their apps.
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Doesn't Apple store apps need to be approved to be released to the store in the first place? Why release his app at all if you know you have one in the works?
 
Deathroned said:
There is thing called testing an app and making sure it functions properly try it sometimes it works, since apple takes pride in their apps.
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And this relates to any of my points how exactly?

You come trough as a 12 year old apple fan trying to sound smart. But it's not working.
 
Remember when you guys were crying like little girls?

Guess you were wrong about apple wanting to sell more AirPods.

You guys for a group that hates Apple sure spend a disproportionate amount of time thinking about them. Like scorned women the bunch of you;)
 
Wireless earbuds would only really make any sense if the removal of the wires made space for the buds to somehow magnetically dock into indents into the phone without stocking out excessively, so you'd always have them and they'd always be charged.

But that takes up a lot of space, and Apple likes to make their phones ridiculously slim which would never accommodate the width needed for earbuds, so its a cancerous idea.
 
M76 said:
This is very confusing. Which misconception does this represent? That everyone stole from apple, or that apple has stolen from everyone? Cause I've seen both crop up.
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the reality is everyone stole from everyone.

apples reality is everyone stole from them.
 
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