That's a complete red herring. Parts serialization didn't make thievery of phones go down. How could it? It's thievery of opportunity. Do you really think an h

That's a complete red herring. Parts serialization didn't make thievery of phones go down. How could it? It's thievery of opportunity. Do you really think an hypothetical thief which would be like "how damn the phone I just pickpocketed is an iPhone. Let me give it back I can't sell the parts" exist? The only thing it does is allow Apple to keep parts price artificially high, business as usual for Apple.