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Apple launched a brand new product this year that sold out quickly after becoming available for preorder, the oft-rumored AirTag tracker that has a unique advantage over all other similar products. AirTags harness Appel’s massive network of devices, most of them iPhones, to provide anonymous, location information about missing items hooked up to the tracker. Keys, wallets, suitcases, bags, bikes, and other objects you wouldn’t want to lose track of can be “protected” with AirTags, which then show up in the Find My app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac with location information. That’s the same app that Apple used for years to locate missing iPhones and share location data between family and friends.
Google replicated the Find My iPhone functionality years ago, and Android users can also track their lost or stolen devices. Unsurprisingly, Google might be looking to copy Apple’s AirTag tech by using the same principle. Google could rely on crowdsourced location information about lost items coming from a massive network of Android devices. Google hasn’t announced anything about an AirTag-like tracker of its own, but it already has code in place that indicates it’s already working on such a project.
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Google might copy Apple’s newest hit product originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 18 Jun 2021 at 07:31:31 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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