As we all know, many consumers now choose wireless Bluetooth headphones when buying headphones. Wireless Bluetooth headsets are easy to wear and lightweight, but there is a problem that they are easy to lose.
As one of the devices with the highest loss rate, Apple's wireless Bluetooth headset often occurs when headphones are lost, only the charging compartment is left or the entire headphone box is lost. AirPods are more expensive in wireless Bluetooth headsets, so it is very uneconomical for consumers to lose parts or entire headphones. However, after the find function goes live, AirPods and connected iOS devices will be able to share locations and track where AirPods are going.
This new feature is really convenient for many users, and the headphones are not easy to lose. However, this feature has made many second-hand retailers difficult. Recently, a report by Business Insider showed that second-hand retailers such as Walmart were forced to stock up more than 30,000 pairs of headphones in a matter of weeks due to Apple's integration of AirPods into the "Find Me" network function.
It is reported that due to this function, when the second-hand AirPods are bought and matched, they will receive a "AirPods mismatch" prompt, which will lead to normal use.
More seriously, the original owner of AirPods can directly view the current location of AirPods through this function, which will undoubtedly cause serious privacy leakage problems. Therefore, second-hand products are not selected by consumers.
According to Walmart, about 80% of the AirPods that are currently being processed are affected by the problem, while another merchant that sells second-hand AirPods on websites such as Amazon has directly announced the suspension of sales.
In fact, it is not difficult to solve this problem, as long as the original owner selects "Remove this device" in the mobile phone to turn it off, but how to find the owner of tens of thousands of AirPods in the warehouse and get in touch with it is not an easy task.
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