Apple AirTag - Cheap GPS Tracker Alternative?

[spmtamu11]

Apple announced a new product called AirTags this week. Essentially its a GPS tracker the size of a bottle cap, has a year long battery life and uses apple's existing Find My app (shows real-time location of your apple devices or friends/family who share their location) to help you find the exact location of whatever you put the AirTag on.

It's $29 for 1 & $99 for a pack of 4 and as long as you have another apple device (phone, ipad, laptop, etc.), tracking the AirTag doesn't cost you anything else.

I've been looking into GPS trackers for my truck but didn't want to have to wire something up, pay a yearly fee or a high entry price and I think this just might be the ticket.

Heck, I'll get the 4 pack and hide them in 4 spots for redundancy and give myself a few more shreds of hope that if someone snatched my truck I could find it before it disappears forever.

What do you guys think?

And before someone says 'Build a garage!' I'm working on that right now too (picture for proof), but lumber decided to go up 2.5-3X this year after I had set aside building funds so this will have to do while I wheel & deal my way into enough surplus materials to go vertical.