He was told the usual: laws, security, geopolitics. But then he stumbled across something odd – an old post claiming someone had tracked their AirPods using Find My on Baengnyeong Island, a remote Korean territory. If the feature was illegal under Korean law, he thought, why did it work there? […] users were able to find lost backpacks, wallets and AirPods for the first time, along with some long-overdue peace of mind.
Interesting story but imagine if he had channeled that energy into something actually meaningful lol
Although no official data is available, Mr Hwang believes South Korea has more than 10 million Apple users, yet, for 15 years, no one – not the media, influencers or lawmakers – questioned why a basic feature was missing. Everyone assumed someone else had checked.
One person finally did.
“For me, this wasn’t just about the feature alone,” he said. “It was about how easy it is for misinformation to settle into something permanent. People thought Apple had a good reason. But no one could say what it was.”
I wonder if this is a cultural thing? Like how widespread is the belief in dying from sleeping in a room with a fan on?
Fan? Kill me? 😂
I don’t think it’s particularly believed anymore, but at one time there was apparently a widespread belief in Korea that sleeping in an enclosed space with an electric fan running came with a high risk of death. Maybe everyone just kind of went along without questioning it, assuming someone had verified this, and that’s what happened with Find My Friend. Everyone believed there was some legal reason blocking it in South Korea and just kind of went along with it assuming someone had checked.
It probably isn’t a phenomenon limited to Korean culture, but one where I could quickly think of a possibly related example. Maybe like the common belief in the USA and perhaps other places that swimming/going in the water immediately after eating will cause dangerous muscle cramps. It doesn’t.
Since no one has posted the reason why this feature was blocked by apple in south Korea and I don’t want to read this article, I had Claud summarize it,
According to the petition, Apple said Find My was disabled “because of internal policy,” likely related to privacy concerns and South Korean law interpretations Applelnsider, though the exact reasons were never officially stated.
why not read this article lol
Because all of these “news” websites are infested with annoying Ads that make it frustrating to read and most articles are only actually worth a paragraph worth of actual useful information and the rest is fluff, added to lengthen the article so that you have to scroll more and see more Ads. The above 4 lines is all I cared to know from the article
How else do you suppose the free news website subsists? And out of the 40 stanzas here only the first 8 have ads. I strongly disagree with the notion that non–pyramid-style articles are filled with fluff.
Why would you buy airtags if their only purpose, being used to track where things are… doesn’t work? And you don’t even question why they don’t work.
I wonder if it had something to do with the relationship between Apple and Samsung…
How so? Having a bad relationship doesn’t mean you nerf your own products or solicit legal advice from a competitor.
Samsung is responsible for almost a quarter of South Korea’s GDP, that is gigantic, they have a huge influence over the government.
Who knows what deals Apple and Samsung had made? This could absolutely be something they negotiated.
Samsung make more from selling screens to apple than they do selling phones, so the relationship isn’t as clear-cut as moist assume
