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Return it to an Apple store? Apple knows who to contact.
by BeefySwain 2y ago
Return it to an Apple store? Apple knows who to contact.
- yreg 2y agoMost countries, including mine or the ones I'm likely to travel to, don't have Apple Stores.
- mlyle 2y agoIf my phone gets stolen from my pocket in the US, the chance of it wandering to the third world and then a Good Samaritan trying to give it back seem abysmal.
- spookie 2y agoBut what if you don't live in the US. You actually live in a "third world" country? These are the type of things that make it very hard for Apple to penetrate markets outside the US.
- mlyle 2y agoWhat we're discussing: you can put any message you want on the phone for how it can be returned to you. Some people are mentioning that if Apple is given the phone, Apple will also help (and that they'd prefer to not put that message in place as a result). > These are the type of things that make it very hard for Apple to penetrate markets outside the US. Can you explain how this is much worse than, say, Google or Samsung?
- yreg 2y ago> Some people are mentioning that if Apple is given the phone, Apple will also help No, they will not. It is just a wish. And it makes little sense for Apple to be doing that. If you bring a found iPhone to Apple, Apple will not tell you any information about the associated customer. They don't have any infrastructure to return it. The only thing they can and will do is take the device and recycle it.
- filleduchaos 2y agoAnd if there is no Apple Store around? There are entire countries without those, and even more that only have a few total.
- coredog64 2y agoI know Apple doesn’t really have the financial incentive for this, but some kind of prepaid mailing label you could print and use for this would be an option if there’s not a nearby Apple store.