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That defeats the entire purpose of the feature. I want my computer to be unusable if stolen.
by alphabettsy 4y ago
That defeats the entire purpose of the feature. I want my computer to be unusable if stolen.
- trinsic2 4y agoIt's my understanding that the purpose is to protect data. It has a secondary effect of preventing use of the device. The goal of reuse and preventing device use are incompatible.
- rahoulb 4y agoActivation Lock started on iPhones and the purpose was to discourage theft, as people were having them ripped out of their hands and then sold on.
- threeseed 4y agoEveryone supports the concept of reuse. But most of us don't want to extend the courtesy to petty criminals.
- widowlark 4y agoI think this is shortsighted. Criminals might be the target of this policy today, but when these machines are no longer current, the owners of the machines might no longer know or care where the device is, and they will still be unusable. This to me is unacceptable.
- pulisse 4y agoAs long as the owner can still log in to their iCloud account they can deregister their device. This is a non-issue.
- widowlark 4y agoI think its wrong to be dismissive of how inacessible this could become if apple is no longer a company
- danaris 4y agoFor almost any other company, I think this would be a reasonable concern. Given Apple's staggering pile of cash, I think that we'll have decades of warning if they're going to stop existing.
- trinsic2 4y agoThis is really an issue of control. A company that designs and sells computers, which creates a conflict of interest, should not be in the business of controlling access to a computer. That should be handled by the customer. Otherwise they will use the market position to dictate how that control is used. It's a lose across the board, you are not thinking long term.
- threeseed 4y agoSo how many thefts, home break-ins, violent assaults etc should we tolerate so that in decades to come the devices can still be usable. Even though at any point said device can be unlocked, transferred, sold etc.
- blokey 4y agoNo, it’s even in the name of the feature. Activation Lock. It is to stop devices being stolen, wiped and re-sold. It is an attempt to allow the legal owner of the device the ability to control who can use it, rather than the possessor of the device having full control who can use it. Its only purpose is to protect the use of the device by people removing all the software (erasing back to factory defaults) and taking control of the physical device that way.
- brookst 4y agoActivation lock is not the same thing as file system encryption.