Here in western Europe in the big cities many people buy locked phones second hand and the vendor explicitly says you have to get it unlocked, which is a service provided by many phone shops (somewhat under the table). No iCloud lock is going to bring it back, so why prevent other, less-privileged folks from using it when you can't use it? That type of "mine or noone else's" capitalist mentality is actively harming users and destroying the environmentįrom what i can see, it does not seem to work. the vast majority), who can't afford buying new luxury devices, people are more concerned with getting locked out after forgetting their password (or after their kids changed it) or about acquiring a second-hand device, than about "protecting" their device from thieves.īecause this "protection" doesn't protect anything. ![]() ![]() The common use case for first-world software developers is the niche use case for the rest of the world. > It's great that you have a niche use case, but that doesn't make your case the priority over the main use cases. There's a lot more value to be extracted from a stolen credit card than from a "smart" phone. People would steal your wallet, your jewelry. Who is going to walk a away with my fridge?
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