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Several commenters are claiming parts. Whats the supply chain here? Is there enough phone repair shops and customers to facilitate the demand?
by mdmglr 4y ago
Several commenters are claiming parts. Whats the supply chain here? Is there enough phone repair shops and customers to facilitate the demand?
- selectodude 4y agoIn the US? Sort of. In the world? Definitely. That being said, I doubt Apple is going to track it down to such a degree but the screens and the batteries and everything are serialized. They could follow the parts into individual phones if they really wanted to.
- flatiron 4y agoIf they did it would prevent things like coffee shop tunnels. All you need is for someone to go to an Apple Store guns blazing to steal phones and they would know full well they could have prevented that. Also people get mugged all the time for their phone. They could prevent that!
- ceejayoz 4y agohttps://www.idownloadblog.com/2014/06/19/activation-lock-helps-curb-iphone-theft-in-new-york-london-and-san-francisco/ https://www.idownloadblog.com/2014/06/19/activation-lock-hel... > Apple’s own anti-theft measures appear to be working, as The New York Times reports that police in New York, San Francisco and London are finally seeing a decline in theft of the iPhone. The introduction of Activation Lock on iOS 7 has seen iPhone robberies drop 38 percent in San Francisco, 24 percent in London and 19 percent in New York, based on the six months before and after Apple released the feature… And that's nine years ago.
- paxys 4y agoMy friend had his phone stolen in San Francisco (with iCloud lock enabled) and Find my Phone located it in Vietnam a few days later before it finally went dead. All the parts in it are very valuable for chop shops.
- sumedh 4y ago> All the parts in it are very valuable for chop shops. I thought iPhones have some kind detection if parts are changed and it simply stops working.
- kalleboo 4y agoOnly security-sensitive parts won't work (TouchID), for anything else it just warns you that the part is not genuine but keeps working
- jstarfish 4y agoThe fence-your-phone kiosks at US malls ship them off to South American chop shops (Brazil IIRC, 10 years ago).
- TMWNN 4y ago"Inside The Illicit World Of iPhone Trafficking" <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ws3YptLmLQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ws3YptLmLQ>