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Which is exactly why they do it. Actual customers that buy lots of Apple products and have appreciated how every year iPhones get more and more pointless to st
by fastball 6y ago
Which is exactly why they do it.
Actual customers that buy lots of Apple products and have appreciated how every year iPhones get more and more pointless to steal have been asking for the same for their laptops for years.
- usrusr 6y agoWell, one could solve that just as well with a device that is fully open to the owner and still pointless to steal. By handing out a per-device master reset key that the owner doesn't need for regular operation and thus doesn't have with the device when and where someone might want to steal it.
- spease 6y agoThey could, but open source has a poor track record of making an easy solution for something this comprehensive that a regular user can set up.
- tomjen3 6y agoIf you don't have to use them regularly then people will misplace them.
- imtringued 6y agoApple can still offer an internet based factory reset in addition to the offline factory reset.
- Someone 6y agoThat wouldn’t work for quite a few users. They would lose the reset key and be locked out of their hardware. I think Apple should offer users the option, though, just as they for account recovery (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208072 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208072. I’m not sure that works without _also_ going to Apple’s servers)
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- smichel17 6y agoI don't see why the key couldn't optionally be stored with Apple, or even by default. But it should be possible/easy to manage your key yourself if you want.