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by quangv 1889 days ago
Tile sends me free replaceable batteries.

Hopefully AirTag opens up their API so Tile can integrate. I’m just assuming AirTag would be slightly more integrated than Tile.

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Here is Gruber's take (from Daring Fireball):

> Conspicuously absent from the list [of third-party products using the Find My network], of course, is Tile. Given their membership in Epic’s Coalition for App Fairness, I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for Apple to promote Tile’s products. And it’s unclear to me whether Tile even wants to be in the Find My app — their spat with Apple is more about their own app competing with Find My, and their accusations that Apple unfairly advantages Find My by not holding it to the same rules as third-party apps that ask for always-on location access. Apple’s solution is this third-party accessory program; Tile’s preferred solution would be Apple allowing Tile’s own app to do everything Find My can do.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/04/07/find-my-third-p...

The “find my” app is open to third party devices, but they have to get certified.
That's a funny way of saying they have to pay for the license.
They do? They charge me an annual subscription for that.
Free? How did you swing that without the subscription payment?