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The original was posted on /r/android by /u/vortexmak on 2023-08-06 21:08:05+00:00.

When tile first came out, I thought it was an amazing idea.

I bought a few and they worked okay.

Then Apple’s implementation came out with UWB and their huge Find My network and it really upped the ante and the stakes.

I have lost two Tile trackers, one in Sweden and the other in the US and none of them were found again, so Apple effectively killed the tile network.

So, I bought a Samsung SmartTag to track my water bottle which I keep losing and today I couldn’t find it. Each time I refreshed the app, the tag location kept flipping between my home and the location I was at. So after looking for the tag for half and hour I gave up and went home, only to find the bottle at home.

It turns out the other location was being falsely reported and I wasted so much time looking for it in a place where it never was.

I’m pissed how badly Samsung and moreso Google has dropped the ball on this. It’s been three years and Google doesn’t have any spare time from making messaging apps to make a Unified API or their own Google play based smart tag.

What has been your experience?