Originally Posted by
njkayaker
It's a confusing anecdote. Your tile in the Philippines? ???
People are going to assume it's suggesting that Tile would be useful as a theft-tracker. Tile might be useful but its network is going to be too small for theft-tracking (the Apple network might not really be large enough).
Yes, it was my Tile.
I don't think people will be misled. I recognized that the Tile network is smaller by quoting your post. And I wrote, "Coincidentally" which is just that, a coincidence. Not an endorsement or refutation. A coincidence.
Whether or not the Tile of Airtag will work due to network size or the privacy issues with the Airtags that
SoSmellyAir brought up, the answer is...it depends. Neither will be as good as the OP wishes, but they won't be entirely useless either, as there's a chance that they can relay the last known location from time to time and narrow any search efforts.
OP, for reference, I sometimes travel with a Spot tracker. It's about the size of a deck of cards and pings its location off of satellites, so it's not dependent upon limited cell, wifi, or nearby bluetooth devices. As long as it can see the sky, it can report it's position. Garmin has a competing product that's maybe half the size. That's basically where we are in terms of the size of consumer location devices that can work in remote areas.