> I'm pretty sure there's no standard equivalent Don’t most other phones have an equivalent feature? Samsung certainly does and they together with Apple contro

> I'm pretty sure there's no standard equivalent Don’t most other phones have an equivalent feature? Samsung certainly does and they together with Apple control the overwhelming majority of the market almost everywhere > I think you'd need a lot more evidence to argue convincingly that this policy made a huge difference. I disagree. It’s perfectly obvious that it made a very big difference. The market price of stolen phones is now much, much lower that it used be which significantly alter the cost/benefit ratio from the perspective of would be thieves.