So I found one of those apple air tag things a couple days ago. I had no idea what is or does, my wife actually had to tell me.
Obviously it doesn’t do or could do anything with my stuff here, so I decided to drop it off at apple. It was a reason to drive across town and walk the mall for 20 min. Get out of the house for a bit.
“Hey I’m just here cause I found this the other day and figured someone was looking for it.”
“Ya, we unfortunately can’t get anyone’s information off of it.”
“Ok? Well I’m assuming someone was looking for it. This is the most logical place to bring it.”
“Well maybe they will contact you looking for it.”
“Why the hell would they contact me? And more importantly I most assuredly don’t want them to contact me.”
“Well maybe they are looking for you.”
“That’s an even better reason why I wouldn’t want this then.”
“Well there’s nothing we can do with it here.”
“So you’re telling me your product, designed to help someone find things, can’t be used to find anyone and it’s complete trash?”
“Well, um.”
“Do you have a trash bin?”
“Yes.”
“And this thing is just basically trash then?”
“Basically”
“Cool, here, can you toss this in the trash for me?”
“Sure, just take out the battery and recycle it.”
“How do I do that?”
(Employee pushes the thing and it falls apart)
Me - “Ok.” into trash. “Well I guess that’s a pretty fitting place for us to put your products.”
Walk out and throw battery in trash
(I was more interested to know how it came apart than to recycle the battery)
And that is how myself and two Apple employees took Apple hardware, admitted said hardware in a store full of customers and employees was completely trash and useless at the one and only thing it was built and sold to do. And then thrown into the trash in front of everyone.
Today was a good day. I hope you all also had a good day.
I read that Android implemented a feature to notify you if an Airtag or Samsung-Tag is detected for a “longer” period in your surrounding. This should make it harder for people to track you silently.
