Apple opens device tracking for other manufacturers
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A search app for Apple products has been around for a while. Now the group also wants to open up to third-party providers and enable tracking for certain bicycles, among other things
Apple opens its network for location “Where is?”, Which so far could only localize the company’s own products, for third-party providers. The first devices that should be able to be found again with the help of the Apple service include certain bicycles from a Dutch manufacturer.
So far, only Apple devices have worked
Apple introduced the “Where is?” Service in 2010 as “Find my iPhone” in order to be able to locate lost or stolen devices. Later the service also got a location function for friends (“Find my Friends”). Since the operating system version iOS 13, the two services have been merged to “Find my” (“Where is?”). The service can now locate Macintosh computers, iPads, Apple Watch and AirPods headphones on a digital map.
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Location with “Where is?” On third party devices
“For more than a decade, our customers have relied on Where’s to locate their missing or stolen Apple devices with the highest level of privacy,” said Bob Borchers, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing . The Chipolo One key fobs are one of the third-party devices that can now also track down “Where is?”. It was still unclear on Wednesday whether Apple would do without the long-awaited entry into this segment with “Apple Tile”.
Observers also see the expansion of the service as a clever move by Apple to counter accusations of foreclosing its own products from competing products. So the location could only be the beginning.
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