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The image used to illustrate the article shows something that looks like it could be one a dozen different Android GPS trackers for sale on Alibaba.

Totally gratuitous clickbait finger-pointing at Apple.




The image with the red circle? I think that's part of the car, a cap that covers a plug where you can wire up your trailer (for lights). It's showing where a thief could hide an AirTag.

Yeah location trackers have always been a thing, but the same way Apple made the desktop computer mainstream (back in the 80's) and then again with smartphones, their AirTag is making location tracking mainstream, so now everyone can be a stalker or a car thief ;-) . Is it their fault? IMO not really, but, a little bit?


I agree with your general point but

>Apple made the desktop computer mainstream

really isn't true. While Apple was one of the companies (see also Commodore, Tandy, ...) that first popularized home computers, it was really the IBM PC followed by its clones like Compaq that replaced terminals in offices.




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