The problem with switching from Whatsapp is that it's not you alone who has to switch, it's everybody else. If you have a way to make all my family, friends and colleagues, let me know
At Colruyt we're testing a system that helps customers at the checkout by automatically recognizing fruits and vegetables. The system is built on top of a (partly) self-service AI platform built by Robovision.
First of all, the way this direction finding works differs a lot from how beacons work. With beacons, it's your phone that does the processing and the beacon that sends a signal.
If this standard works more or less the same as other indoor positioning services (IPS) available on the market, it will require a few antennas on the ceiling to triangulate the position of the device, it means the processing is now done on the antenna instead of on the device.
The big problem with all the vendors nowadays that don't use computer vision to track somebody or something is that their solutions require physical tags with batteries. But if it becomes part of the Bluetooth standard, every person will have a potential tracking-device in their pocket.
Let's set aside China. iPhones have increased drastically in price over the past two years. Even if their revenue would still be the same, doesn't this mean people are buying less iPhones and more people are leaving the Apple ecosystem? Leaving the ecosystem is a bigger threat for them, because they also rely on the sales of the accessories. People are more likely to buy a mac or an iPad if they also have an iPhone.