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What if the stolen iPhone was your only way to access your email/iCloud? You might not be able to confirm it as stolen then. I do agree that e-waste can be a p
by lstamour 4y ago
What if the stolen iPhone was your only way to access your email/iCloud? You might not be able to confirm it as stolen then.
I do agree that e-waste can be a problem, but unlocking the iPhone seems trivially easy, and as noted in this article, the real problem is that when devices you own break, they might become very expensive paperweights (aka e-waste) as repairing them might cost more than the device is currently worth.
And I believe Apple already has a program where they can recycle an iPhone back to spare parts without compensation as you describe.
- sschueller 4y agoThat small percentage of people who can't mark their phones as stolen is not zero but it's small enough for theives not to bother stealing a device which 9 out of 10 times is unusable. The upside however of being able to recover a non stolen phone is so much higher.