Google delays its upgraded Find My Device network until Apple can add safety alerts

Google should just release it's "iPhone user stalking puck" in the wild. That will light a fire under Apples ass.

Cheap iPhone SE seems useful to have as a back up phone for stuff like that. I actually wish it was even smaller because of that.

You are severely limited with what you can do with the AirTags if you don't have an iPhone. You need to pair it to an Apple account, and you don't have access to Apple's Find My Device network on Android.

Apple's and Google's network aren't inter-operable and do not communicate with eachothers and will not transmit location data across both.

The only thing the Android device will be able to do with it is report the presence of an AirTags without a connection to its paired iOS device in the vicinity as an anti-stalking feature, make it ring to facilitate its discovery and the ability to scan it's builtin NFC tag to read the owner info.

I have a few air tags tied to my work iPhone. My main phone is a pixel and I didn't even realize you could connect them together. As soon as you open an air tag near an iPhone you get a little pop up prompting you to set it up and off you go. They only update location when they come within range of a new iPhone but that's pretty constant anymore.

My daughter is on the spectrum and I have one in her bookbag. It's cool sometimes being able to watch her bus ride to and from school as she passes by different phones 😂