In article , Alan Browne
wrote:

Tile. (Object locating device). Huge success.

not for long and they know it.

The context was crowd funding and Tile certainly was successful in
getting funding and deploying a good, functional product and remains (I
believe) the market leader.

If Apple's widget is iOS/PadOS/WatchOS only then Tile will retain a huge
market opportunity base.

not really, since tile requires a critical mass of tile users who have
installed the tile app *and* are actively running in the background,
which is something that will simply not happen in the numbers for it to
be reliable.

for apple's system, just one person with an ios device needs to be
nearby at some point, and with well over a billion ios users, that's a
virtual certainty.

apple's system will also do more than just tell you the general
vicinity, but *exactly* where the item is with roughly 1 cm accuracy.

tile is history. they know it. the market knows it. that's why they've
resorted to lawsuits. it's all they have left.