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AirTag 2 not expected until 2025 as Apple sits on backlog of first-gen inventory (9to5mac.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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AirTag 2 not expected until 2025 as Apple sits on backlog of first-gen inventory::If you’ve been hoping for a second-generation AirTag, you’ll have to keep waiting. According to a new report from Bloomberg,...

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Only thing I could see is making them somewhat harder to tamper with and sealed with a rechargeable battery.

They fit on the Apple Watch charger exactly. A lot of people assumed they were originally supposed to be rechargeable.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I don’t know how that could possibly been seen as an “upgrade”.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah, it’s a stretch for sure.

That said, because the tracking network is way broader than the other BT trackers, so stalkers love use and mod these little things. And they’re very un-Apple like, in that they’re easy to open up.

Stalking has been the one thing that AirTags constantly get slammed for in the press about. I wouldn’t be surprised if they sold an updated tracker that was sealed, packed full of resin, and marketed as “more secure.”

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It could be used to make the device completely waterproof.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There are plenty of waterproof devices with replaceable batteries.

The idea you have to seal in the battery (and the device goes to landfill instead of getting a replacement) is a myth.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Of course it can be made waterproof with a replaceable battery, but would you trust your grandma to swap such a battery so that it stays waterproof?

Would you want to be the customer support for a device like that with a billion users? The amount of idiots failing to close the case properly and drowning their device is staggering, and the idiots are usually the ones who call CS to complain…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

EU objects. The replaceable battery regulation kicks in 2025 and I believe it will apply to devices like AirTag.