Find My iPhone App Helps Locate iPad Thieves

By on Jun 29, 2010 at 11:55 am

An Apple employee’s home was recently robbed by a couple of thieves who made off with $20,000 worth of electronic goods which included 2 iPads, an iBook, laptops and a PC. They almost got away with it, however, the owner had already activated the Find My iPad feature on his Find My iPhone app, allowing the police to track and apprehend the two robbers.

MobileMe subcribers can locate their iPhones, iPod Touches and iPads through the Find My iPhone app which is a free downloaded from the App Store.

Don’t you just love having Lo-Jack on our iDevices? Gotta love it!

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  • PleaseFind.it

    Happy Independence day!

    I must admit that Apple's “Find My iPhone” is an awesome App. It has some great features that are double dipped in Apple’s sweet secret sauce of proprietary code that is not publicly available in their SDK. (with some good reason)

    If you want the ability to wipe a phone from a distance you gotta pony up to Apple’s $99 annual fee for Mobile Me
    …and depending on what pics you take with your camera, that money might be worth it.

    However, if all you want is the ability to find your phone, I suggest checking out some other really great third party alternatives.

    We've built an app called “PleaseFind.it” $4.95 and gives you a lot of the same functionality. If you ever lose or misplace your iPhone all you need to do is log into PleaseFind.it (thats the URL) and the service will show you where it was last spotted.

    It doesn’t have all the proprietary bells and whistles of “Find My iPhone” … but it elegantly handles the 'dude, where's my iPhone' usecase without eating up all your battery life. (we're a little bit clever about this)

    …perhaps it's as good a day as any to declare your independence from MobileMe’s $99 annual fee to find your iphone

    j'sayin,
    Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock
    (and the folks at PleaseFind.it)
    July 4, 2010

    Full Disclosure: The $4.95 price is part of a 50% “yay we just launched promotion” + "Happy Independence from Mobile Me sale" that goes on for another week, after which time it will go back up to its regular price of $9.95.