They are taking it seriously because of the legal liability issues. Their lawyers are clearly worried about the legal implications of their devices being used to track people and things for illegal purposes and want to make sure they have a level of protection against lawsuits from consequences of tracking devices used for illegal purposes. There are already cases of women being stalked using these devices.
> Their lawyers are clearly worried about the legal implications of their devices being used to track people and things for illegal purposes
Just that Android devices are not involved in tracking of AirTags, as of today only iOS devices actually share the location of AirTags back to Apple.
They maybe want to change that, but considering the huge amount of volume disparity between AirTags and Google's tags, I assume Apple would have to pay Google for the service of extending their tracking-network...
