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Honestly. This is a pretty good advertisement for Apple. I appreciate the effort that they've put into making my device less valuable to thiefs.
Not enough, apparently. She still got robbed of her iPhone and had to buy another one.
There was an interesting approach with VanMoof bikes where the company insured it against theft, and if your £2000 bike disappeared they actually had a team that would go to it's location and ask for it back. The police don't seem that interested in getting stolen stuff though - that was private enterprise.
Still I'd pay for that on a phone if only to get the bastards who snatch the things.
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It's probably best not to declare war upon China in writing. Instead, ask how many students died in the 1989 Tiananmen massacre. That specific phrase should specifically auto-alert the censors to a known forbidden topic, without resorting to threats against China. How long of a lost phone message can one set, anyways?
> That specific phrase should specifically auto-alert the censors to a known forbidden topic Heck, even get you flagged here, for that matter.
Not sure what you're suggesting.
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These days, it's not worth it to steal an iPhone. It's a useless brick. That Apple knows where it's at.
i see homeless people in SF disassembling iphones so clearly they have routed around this
This happened to my sister. She got her phone stolen at a bar in Austin. They’ve tried to phish her multiple times and now it’s gotten to intimidation texts where they are threatening physical and sexual violence to her unless she unlocks the phone. She put it in lost mode right away and due to my assurance she knows she is safe but honestly it does make you kind of just want to unlock and get the nightmare over with…
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> She has tracked the iPhone via find my through a few us cities and finally it’s in China. I wonder… if people whose phones get stolen start tracking the locations they see it travel to using Find My, and a site were available to report these to, could enough evidence be collected to motivate a police/FBI visit to the location of fences in the US who are shipping these to China? (Could one prevent such a tool from b…
> I wonder… if people whose phones get stolen start tracking the locations they see it travel to using Find My, and a site were available to report these to, could enough evidence be collected to motivate a police/FBI visit to the location of fences in the US who are shipping these to China? Probably not. Below their pay grade to stop petty crime. There's also the chain of custody on evidence that becomes questionabl…
The paperwork mixup described in this comment doesn't sound like an attempt at fraud or theft because no evidence of intent to deceive someone or take property from its rightful owner is described. Indeed, when the previous owner of the motorcycle was contacted, they corrected the paperwork.
This is a fake story. > Veronica leads the digital news and audience team at WNYC and Gothamist, which includes breaking news, newsletters, and social, among other things. I expect such fake stories on the front page of reddit, not HN.
Honestly. This is a pretty good advertisement for Apple. I appreciate the effort that they've put into making my device less valuable to thiefs.
Apple puts effort into making you go to them for repair parts. Any deterrence against thieves is simply a fringe benefit. Don't credit them for something that isn't actually their goal.
Being able to see Apple’s warning on the iPhone 11 and up "Unable to verify this iPhone has a genuine Apple display” meant we were able to find a phone which was still stock.
I’m a big proponent of the right to repair but in this case Apple’s repair deterrence feature had a big benefit for us.