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As far as I’m aware nothing stops them from doing just that. You’ve got the dynamics right, but the hardware is not the problem, it’s the app.

They want iOS users to download the Tile app instead of using the native Find My. If they don’t, coverage will be severely degraded for Android users as you mention.

The hardware is just a dumb emitter. Fixing this would require either:

1. The Find My api to be available on Android, so phones can track and locate tags

2. Find My on iOS uploads tag data to a third party service of the users’ choice

The latter is absolutely unlikely as it exposes user data defeating all of the privacy guarantees Apple developed. #1 is more likely but still a long shot.