> ...people praise Apple for doing things other people have already done.

As Drake once said: "it ain't about who did it first/ It's about who did it right."

And you know apple did it right? On a device nobody has their hands on?

There's nothing wrong with being a fanboy, but don't pretend like you're not fanboying.

Apple generally does it right. And especially since Tile harasses you to buy a subscription in which they use your phone to report others devices locations. So you think Tile did it right? I’m counting the days myself.

Oh yes the canadian philosopher man.

Trackers have existed for a while, but the privacy preserving ad-hoc device network approach is definitely an innovation.

Is it though? Tile seems to do the exact same thing according to https://www.thetileapp.com/en-us/how-it-works (see "Notify When Found")

I don't have one so I can't conclusively say either way, but it seems like the only "innovation" Apple can probably claim over Tile is that every iPhone should support the network out of the box (I assume) rather than having to rely only on people who already have the app.

The fact that it works with any iPhone /is/ the innovation. I would imagine less than 0,5% of iPhone users has the Tile app installed. A worldwide network of connected iPhones will make this technology finally worth using.

Tile charges for that feature, and harasses you in app until you pay the sub. Tiles only works with phones, any apple device supporting the “find my” protocol can report the position of a tag.

Integration into the Apple ecosystem is another huge one that Tile refused.

The brilliant thing with apple is the privacy feature and the fact there are hundreds of millions of devices/people able to help find your lost item - that’s where a lot of the other trackers fell down.

Is like wireless head phones, Apple didn’t invent them, but they get praised because of of great they didn’t it.

“Where people praise App for things other people have already done.”

Did anyone say Apple was the first to do this? No, no they did not.

So are you saying that nobody is allowed to be praised if it’s been done before? Because that’s what it looks like to me, please correct me if I’m mistaken. Thanks.

GP said that "Apple made it practical" while quoting a part about having user-replaceable batteries, implying that Apple's use of replaceable batteries in a device tracker was Apple's innovation.

No it's implying that there was a worry that Apple wouldn't have user replaceable batteries. They at no point reference any competing product.

I disagree. The comment is drawing a contrast between what apple did and "devices like this".