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> he will still get some money for it from a fence. From my understanding of the activation lock, the phone is effectively bricked - no-one can ever use it aga
by zimpenfish 4y ago
> he will still get some money for it from a fence.
From my understanding of the activation lock, the phone is effectively bricked - no-one can ever use it again. No fence is going to pay for a useless device.
- grishka 4y agoThe motherboard is useless. The rest of the parts can still be resold.
- rekoil 4y agoBut it lowers the incentive significantly regardless.
- szdva 4y agoThankfully Apple is working on that by pairing the parts to the motherboard and showing error messages if they don't match.
- grishka 4y agoThat's one way of looking at it. Another one is that it complicates DIY repairs.
- nunez 4y agothe lucrative parts (screen, camera arrays) are serialized and will not work on phones other than the one they were built for almost everything else is soldered onto the logic board and is futile to transfer so i think that stolen iphones with activation lock are 100% paperweights.