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An app allowing users to locate their lost AirPod wireless earbuds has been removed from Apple's app store without explanation:
Mobile app developer studio Deucks Pty released the app, called "Finder for Airpods," last week. The app used the iPhone to track the Bluetooth wireless signal emitted by the two AirPod units to help locate the lost piece, displaying a line showing whether the user was getting closer or farther away based on signal strength. Excitement about Apple's new wireless earphones has almost been matched by anxiety about how easy it could be to lose one of the two unconnected mini speakers. So there was an initial burst of enthusiasm about the new app, which quickly garnered a rating of four and a half stars.
But on Monday, the app had vanished from the Apple App Store—and developer Raajit Sharm at Deucks Pty says it's not coming back. "Apple determined the 'concept' of people finding their AirPods with the app was deemed 'not appropriate for the App Store,'" Sharm wrote in an email to Fortune. "The app will not return back."
A new pair of AirPods costs $159 and a single replacement costs just $69.
Also at The Verge.
(Score: 3, Informative) by AthanasiusKircher on Wednesday January 11 2017, @01:54AM
By purchasing brand-new AirPods any time you lose yours, you'll always have nice, new, clean ones, so this is a much better solution anyway.
You forgot one thing: you know those old AirPods were faulty. I mean, they got lost, didn't they? Darn AirPods! Why would you want such flawed equipment? Good, nice new shiny ones wouldn't get lost like that!
Same thing applies to all Apple products. (It's actually true that I've heard more Apple users speak of their devices as if they had "moods" and even "volition" than users of PCs or Android devices or whatever. On a PC, an error is frequently due to some identifiable fault that can be seen in a log or dialogue box or something. On a Mac, the user will just say, "My computer's cranky today.") When the computer is cranky for many days in the row, it is strongly advised by Apple to just dump it into the nearest trash can and go to an Apple store immediately to buy a replacement.
Following such logic to the AirPods, if they're lost, they must have wandered off. Best to let them go; get new ones.