I ordered 4 Apple AirTags this morning. Was going to get them engraved and personalized, but that delayed the shipment 2 weeks.

Kevin Tofel writes a nice post on the AirTags here.

Between the additional radios and the breadth of that network coverage, I can easily see Apple AirTags selling like hotcakes. And I’ll be ordering at least one on Friday, if not more, depending on if my family wants them, so I can cut my per-AirTag price to $25 each.

Kevin is a friend from GigaOm days and this post is on Stacey Higginbotham’s IOT website. Stacey is my 1st GigaOm friend and she now lives less than 30 miles away with a Ferry ride. Now that we both have vaccinated we plan on getting together in 2 weeks and chat in person and one of the things we will chat about is the AirTags.

One of the good things I learned from working at Apple is working with electromagnetic spectrum as a design concept. UWB, Bluetooth and NFC are in AirTags. Bluetooth is the industry standard way to communicate on 2.4 Ghz. NFC uses 13.56 MHz. UWB from Apple is 6.24 GHz and 8.2368 GHz and has security features.

Ultra Wideband security in iOS
The new Apple‑designed U1 chip uses Ultra Wideband technology for spatial awareness—allowing iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and iPhone 11 Pro Max or later iPhone models to precisely locate other U1‑equipped Apple devices. Ultra Wideband technology uses the same technology to randomize data found in other supported Apple devices:
MAC address randomization
Wi-Fi frame sequence number randomization

One of the big questions I have is what will Apple announce at its developer conference June 7 -11 for AirTags.

Apple has a developer program for Find My.