The biggest problem with find my Mac is that it has to be connected to the internet to work.
The biggest problem with find my Mac is that it has to be connected to the internet to work. I'm guessing people selling on the black market are smart enough to make sure that doesn't happen. I think a better solution is something like Tile is doing. http://www.thetileapp.com . Install a low powered Bluetooth beacon on every device and use the power crowd source in order to find that device. The two biggest things that would have to happen for it to work would be 1. A major manufacturer like apple would have to install it on every device in order build up a big enough user base to make it feasible 2. The ability to find the lost device would have to require no user input. Basically the person that lost the device would mark it as lost and then every iPhone would now know that and in the background would look for that Bluetooth device and if found would automatically send that location back to the user who lost their device. It has some privacy concerns but I think this would be an effective way to find lost devices.
Posted by jreed91 on May 4, 2014, 12:45 PM
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The biggest problem with find my Mac is that it has to be connected to the internet to work.
The biggest problem with find my Mac is that it has to be connected to the internet to work. I'm guessing people selling on the black market are smart enough to make sure that doesn't happen. I think a better solution is something like Tile is doing. http://www.thetileapp.com . Install a low powered Bluetooth beacon on every device and use the power crowd source in order to find that device. The two biggest things that would have to happen for it to work would be 1. A major manufacturer like apple would have to install it on every device in order build up a big enough user base to make it feasible 2. The ability to find the lost device would have to require no user input. Basically the person that lost the device would mark it as lost and then every iPhone would now know that and in the background would look for that Bluetooth device and if found would automatically send that location back to the user who lost their device. It has some privacy concerns but I think this would be an effective way to find lost devices.
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