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Sure, but it seems good enough for practical purposes. I mean, in her case it would even have been enough to just mail them a $40 Android phone with location services turned on.

just mail them a $40 Android

Try to do it yourself. You would quickly find out what it is not a reliable method.

And AirTag costs $30 or even $25 each in a 4 pack.

Right, it's certainly cheaper, but my point is it's not a fundamental game-changer - she could've done it 5 years ago with the technology we had then, too.

There comes a point where a difference in scale becomes a difference in kind.

With AirTags, I think we have reached that tipping point.

Well, duh, she could just travel in time to say her past self to do it then.

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