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Old Dec 21, 2023 | 4:21 pm
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Originally Posted by Davvidd
I think the advantage Apple has it that so many people use it and I am sure that if there was an Android for all Android phones that would certainly overtake the Air Tag. Samsung though good as it has not the wide market that Apple has if I am correct?
That is correct. In the USA Apple has a 2:1 ratio of new devices sold vs samsung - but that is still MILLIONS of samsung devices reporting on this network. If you stand ten people in an airport and only two of them have Samsung phones - that is still PLENTY for this kind of tracking. It is a much better situation than Tile - even with Tile's "Amazon Sidewalk" support.

But I think the big one is that Google pushed out a change to Play Services last year that enabled all Android phones to do this (Samsung, Motorola, OnePlus, Nokia, Sony, etc). https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023...work-are-here/

That article states that Tile will join Google Find My network. But not with their legacy devices. I also looked at Chipolo and beware they have SPOT branded devices that work ONLY with Apple's network right now, and are waiting for Google to finalize the Google/Apple interoperability standard before they ship more of the POINT devices on the Google network. https://9to5google.com/2023/05/10/an...vice-trackers/

Last edited by elCheapoDeluxe; Dec 21, 2023 at 4:38 pm Reason: Addl info on Chipolo
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