Before anyone gets the wrong idea I am one of those peoples who’s mantra is “I would rather have it and not need it than the other way around”.
In that vein I daily a backpack that has thousands of dollars in tools, electronics and survival stuff in it at all times. I’m talking I could survive a complete collapse of society for quite some time with what I keep in that bag every day kinda deal.
The one thing that concerns me is the bag getting grabbed one day. I could replace everything in there but I would prefer to avoid spending all that money and time setting it all up again. I keep it with me as much as I reasonably can, but obviously I can’t take it with me into places like concerts or events. During those times I have it stashed in a hidden compartment in my trunk so it’s unlikely it would get taken in a smash and grab, but I would feel much better if I was able to keep track of the bags location at all times.
It seems like the small gps tracker market is basically small tags like the tile or air tag and then it immediately jumps to like thousands of dollars and subscriptions.
I am aware that this mythical tracker might not exist at all, but if anyone would know of one it’s you nerds (I call yall nerds lovingly).
Check out https://landairsea.com/. Reasonable price for a solid solution.
Those look cool but charging more for more frequent location updates is incredibly cringe.
Yeah, aren’t they just using GPS? Feels cash grabby
I think its the cellular part that increases cost the more it is used. Not the gps. The gps has to get off the device somehow. Could easily be free if you got the updates by physically attaching to the device but would make it very much pointless.
Yeah I can understand a subscription cost for something like this, but charging nearly 4 times as much for frequent location updating feels like intentionally making a product worse so you can try and justify the cost of the “full” service. Idk.