John Siracusa

You can find a million YouTube videos of people drilling holes in them.

Have you seen all those?

There's DIY ways to do this that I don't recommend this, but it's a thing you can do.

Yeah, I don't think it's possible.

If someone has physical access to your...

to your air tag i mean you can just put hot glue on the thing that moves to make the noise like there's no there's no stopping someone from it's not like you know like oh is it possible to make it turn the camera on without making the green led come on on your like macbook pro screen like that is a tractable problem that you can solve in various ways but like i'll give you physical access to this air tag uh but i'll make it so you can't disable the speaker you can always disable the speaker

It'll be very, very difficult to make it so someone with physical access couldn't disable the speaker.

But yeah, Apple does what it can, and they're always refining the software approach.

And the thing is, it's a security convenience thing because we're using it within our family, and we're not stalking each other, but we are constantly running into annoyances that are caused by the stalker mitigation.

So anything like this...

trying to deal with the worst possible actors makes everybody's life more difficult because now you get like an unknown air tag moving with you and blah blah blah it's like no it's just me it's just you know you don't know why that stuff is there but once again the bad actors in the world make things worse for everybody

They spun it as a positive marker.

You know why we didn't change it?

The environment.

That's why.

It's not because we don't care.

I would say the magnets inside the iPad are part of the naked robotic core thing because the idea is we don't put anything on it, but we provide places for you to put stuff on it.

The magnets don't stick out and they're in space that is otherwise unused inside it, so it's fine.

And by the way, I feel like they could have, if they really wanted to, probably at additional cost of the product, put a hole in these suckers while still maintaining compatibility with all existing accessories.

Because all people want is just a little hole that you can put a little ring through.