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This looks to me like a tradeoff we collectively haven’t agreed upon for any other device. To take the perennial car analogy, car theft is a widespread enough
by makeitdouble 5y ago
This looks to me like a tradeoff we collectively haven’t agreed upon for any other device.
To take the perennial car analogy, car theft is a widespread enough phenomenon, but we haven’t settled on breaking central functionalities each time a repair is done outside network.
To push a bit further, steeply lowering phone price would also critically deter theft, why not go that option if it’s that important ?
- judge2020 5y agoWell, imagine Tesla implements a feature to put a car in lost mode and it suddenly can't be driven, even with a key. At that point, the only thing the car thief could do is strip it for parts and sell them on ebay or the like.
- makeitdouble 5y agoTo stay in the analogy, I see it more like being forbidden to open your car with the key fob because you had the door bumps straightened. In our actual case, Apple isn't reacting to a lost mode request, and would be blocking any third party screen repair, under any circumstance.