>I guess the question is: do these measures actually reduce phones getting stolen in a significant manner? We can probably guess with good confidence that the

>I guess the question is: do these measures actually reduce phones getting stolen in a significant manner? We can probably guess with good confidence that the answer to this is yes. Otherwise we'd expect to still be seeing news stories and bombastic "pressure" from attorney generals on Apple like we did ~2013 when iphone thefts were big headlines, like this one: [1]: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/apple-picking-stolen-iphones_n_2818488 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/apple-picking-stolen-iphones_...