[vanshg]

Apple should embrace this fully and create their own decentralized network

[ThatPlayer]

I think you'd still have issues mapping a mesh, especially with how often phones are moving. I remember looking at meshtastic for a mesh wireless network and they're still working on a solution for a large number of nodes covering a large area:

https://meshtastic.org/docs/software/other/mesh-alg

[paxys]

It is only decentralized if the entire world is covered in Apple devices every few meters. At the moment they are simply extensions to a nearby router or cell tower.

[jtbayly]

I don't think that universal coverage is a requirement for something to be decentralized. Am I missing something?

[hervature]

Yes, I think they meant to say useful.

[idiotsecant]

>It is only decentralized if the entire world is covered in Apple devices every few meters.

Give it a few decades...

[Rebelgecko]

Like Amazon Sidewalk?

[moshmosh]

I don't want traffic that doesn't provide some pretty serious benefit to me with very low resource use (as Find My does) to use my phone('s battery).