Marco Arment

There's obvious problems from day one.

And then years later, they release a new version that addresses none of them.

I got to give Apple credit.

When they half-ass a product, they gloriously half-ass it.

Bravo.

I don't, the accessories are definitely obviously very high profit for them.

I don't know how many they sell.

I mean, I see other people selling a bunch of AirTag accessories.

So the other thing is, I guess we will learn once we disassemble them.

So obviously, as soon as AirTags were launched, the other major problem with them is stuff like stalking.

And Apple has done various mitigations over the years to try to make that less of a problem.

It's still a problem, but this entire product category...

Enables a level of stalking and surveillance that is very problematic in a lot of cases.

And so for this product to exist at all, I think Apple does a pretty good job with mitigating that if it's going to exist at all.

That being said, I mean, back when it was released, we actually had conversations on the show about how like, you know, maybe maybe this is too much trouble to even be worth Apple having this product.

But I guess they decided otherwise.

But anyway, some of the rumors about this update before it came out were that maybe they might be making things like disabling the speaker more difficult.

I guess we'll find out, as people get these and start taking them apart and stuff, I guess we'll find out if that actually came to pass.

That would actually be a reasonable upgrade to have made.

I just don't know the physical realities of how possible that is.