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The secondhand market I'm referring to is not one-to-one personal sales, but recyclers / refurbishers dealing with donated devices. It's already a huge issue w
by Wingman4l7 6y ago
The secondhand market I'm referring to is not one-to-one personal sales, but recyclers / refurbishers dealing with donated devices. It's already a huge issue with Apple products. Thousands of perfectly good working iPhones and iPads are not removed from iCloud accounts (either through a lack of consumer education -- resetting a device does NOT do this -- or it being too resource-intensive on the enterprise level) and the activation lock renders them worthless e-waste. This is what is going to happen to T2 chip Apple laptops.
Agreed, thieves aren't parting off stolen phones. I was referring primarily to unattended property theft (car break-ins, theft from public spaces, etc.) not muggings. Probably depends on what is driving the crime.