> With open hardware that you fully and completely own when you buy it, such problems are impossible. I don’t understand. If you have open hardware that you ha

> With open hardware that you fully and completely own when you buy it, such problems are impossible. I don’t understand. If you have open hardware that you have full control over, choose to lock it down to make it impossible to factory reset the device without a password, and then forget that password, how does having open hardware help? If you say “there always should be a way to factory reset the device without a password” you are giving up a feature that Apple provides: making it less worthwhile to steal Apple devices.