Stolen phones are a big problem and I fully support any efforts on the part of the manufacturers to render stolen phones useless to the thieves. That's the only way to solve the theft problem. If a few innocent people inadvertently get their phones bricked as a result, then that's probably the price we have to pay to solve the greater problem of phone theft.
People die of liver cancer. So let's remove everyone's liver, healthy or otherwise, in order to prevent liver cancer. ![Face Palm :palm:](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/facepalm.gif)
When you can't come up with an intelligent argument to get your point across, resort to the most extreme straw man possible. ![Face Palm :palm:](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/facepalm.gif)
Oh, I got my my point across, but your argument (stolen devices) is absolutely void, because an iphone has several other securities measures other than the fingerprint sensor.
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properly set up iphone (iOS 7+) can be completely and remotely bricked by the owner if it gets stolen. Post iOS 7, an iphone is effectively locked to an Apple ID, so it has zero value if stolen.
So, as we can see, Apple already had countermeasures in place in case an iphone gets stolen.
Now, and here comes the difference: a [dumb] user failed to set up security on the iphone properly, and it got stolen, and the thief was able to use the device. Whose fault is it: (a) Apple's (b) the user's (c) everyone else who happened to take his/hers legitimate phone to an unauthorized apple repair center?
Let me just give you an example: my state has over 20.8M inhabitants and exactly 853 cities, spread over 586,522.122 kmĀ². Do you know how many authorized Apple repair centers are in here?
FIVE. That is why most people I know take the phone to unauthorized centers: unauthorized centers repair the phone in a few hours, while the authorized ones will keep your phone for over a month.
Now, you're saying that because Apple isn't able to attend the existing demand, people can't find a solution by their own? They have to subject to over a month wait because there aren't enough authorized repair centers?
And now, because a few people are too dumb to RTFM and properly set up the security in their devices, everyone should have their phones bricked?
My "extreme" comparison fits the bill precisely to what apple is doing. They are hurting people that have never stolen a phone, leaving them with a device that might have cost them a few months of salary just because some other people are completely retarded and can't set up an iphone properly. My comparison is quite precise.