I’ve been waiting for this for ages, I still think letting your main competitor decide when you can release a product is just absurd.
Apple didn’t give a shit about android users getting tracked when they launched air tags.
Then again they aren’t Apple. Google doesn’t have the Apple’s accidental perception of being privacy oriented. Which is nonsense in reality but nevertheless people will look at the exact same solution from Google and interpret it as another privacy invading spying device.
In addition, Google has created and contributed to a shit ton of open source software that has required collaboration with communities and companies, all of which requires going the extra mile to get others onboard.
Meanwhile my Pixel never detected the air tag that’s on my keychain since September and so it’s traveling with the phone all the time. It should detect and warn me…
It’s for this reason that Google in late July announced that it was delaying the launch of the Find My Device network. Google said that it would be “working in partnership with Apple to help finalize the joint unwanted tracker alert specification by the end of this year.”
Delaying it because right now iOS can’t detect unwanted trackers and google and apple are working together to create a spec for it for them.
I don’t really understand why Google needs to wait to release.
I’ve had a Chipolo preorder since last July.
