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This is not correct. Verizon locks the phones themselves: https://www.verizon.com/about/consumer-safety/device-unlocking-policy https://www.verizon.com/about/c
by rkho 7y ago
This is not correct. Verizon locks the phones themselves:
https://www.verizon.com/about/consumer-safety/device-unlocking-policy https://www.verizon.com/about/consumer-safety/device-unlocki...
> Devices that you purchase from Verizon are locked for 60 days after purchase. Devices that you purchase from our retail partners are locked for 60 days after activation. After 60 days, we will automatically remove the lock. Following the 60 day lock period, we do not lock our phones at any time.
- amluto 7y agoYou’re misunderstanding me. Imagine that you are a phone company. You buy a bunch of phones wholesale from various vendors, and you want to lock them. You can’t do this by loading a regular app on them that locks them, and you can’t do this by looking at the phone and saying “abracadabra”. You do it by using some protocol by which the vendor (Apple) allows you to control the lock state of the phone. That protocol exists at Apple’s whim.
- colejohnson66 7y agoSo because Apple has to implement it in order to sell to Verizon, it’s their fault? That’s basically victim blaming. Yes, Apple could not sell phones locked to Verizon, but then they wouldn’t be able to sell phones to Verizon.
- amluto 7y agoDo you actually believe that Verizon would stop carrying iPhones if they couldn’t lock them? I don’t believe this for a second. It’s kind of like arguing that that Verizon would only sell phones preloaded with Verizon crapware. This was partially true, but Apple stood up to them and everyone else quite successfully.
- colejohnson66 7y agoYou’re also ignoring that the FCC requires Verizon phones to come locked for 60 days. Ostensibly to cut down on theft
- amluto 7y agoCitation needed. I can find plenty of evidence that the FCC permits a 60 day lock. I see no evidence whatsoever that the FCC requires it.