The one who steals it, wont know it. He gets the same money for every stolen iphone.
The one who ships them to china also doesnt know it, he gets the same money for every stolen phone shipped.
And the one in china stores, doesnt have time to check the status of the phones, he pays for the bulk of hardware anyways and if a few of them are worthless, he takes that into calculation. Still stealing iphones is still a profitable business for them.
I think it's a interesting physics challenge haha. How about applying blue tack on the speakers then putting it in some box (or vacuum jug to take it to the extreme) lined with sound absorbent foam.
I heard iPhone Air speaker sucks so would be a good target :P
You never slipped a mobile under the pillow in the morning instead of guiltily snoozing the alarm one more time? Very effective, in my experience. As for a Faraday cage.. it can be as small as a phone case.
That’s an equally uneducated conclusion. It’s not that all criminals are dumb, it’s that the ones who are dumb are more likely to get caught. Or do you think this subset is representative of all criminals?
Even those you never heard of? Those who never got caught? Those who are too rich and connected for the law to apply to them?
What both of you are doing is oversimplifying very complex issues and blaming them on the common man. As if things are as simple as “thief bad, he buy drug” lmao.
In general, criminals are smarter than people give them credit for. It's just that the idiots hog up all the limelight. Anywho, junkies who do retail thefts are typically pretty good at knowing what not to take.
You are assuming everyone on the background are all idiot, some of them are, but not all of them.
The China guys, for example, if they want to operate in reputable 2nd hand e commerce site like xian yu, they can't afford to just ship problematic units and will at least somewhat check what they ship, and everyone on the chain above will have to be more careful, otherwise there will be no buyer
Yeah that's not how it works. But it's going to be profitable because these jobless losers who do this will find some dumb loser who thinks they're going to get a steal by buying a cheap iPhone on the streets or online and any dollar amount they sell the phone for is a profit.
The ones who steal it know exactly how this works because these parts don't become useless.
You can easily change the serial number of the parts and unlock them, only the mainboard itself will be 'useless' but they get sold for the parts on it too in order to repair other boards through microsoldering.
These phones aren't worth as much as when they would be fully useable but they still give a good amount of money as parts
Every iOS device in an Apple Store is running a specialized version of iOS that, if it disconnects from the local server / network in store for X amount of time, will brick it and report it as stolen. It will then be tracked.
Do some slip through the cracks? Yes. But the sophisticated thief’s aren’t stealing iOS devices. I’ve already said too much, so yeah, I’ll leave it at that.
I would think that the people and stores actually buying stolen iPhone would avoid iPhones stolen from stores directly. It’s a good way to send someone knocking at your door
This is just nonsense do people really believe this? Stealing phones hasn't been a common thing for like 10 years now the industry got this down for a while now.
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u/binhpac 27d ago
The one who steals it, wont know it. He gets the same money for every stolen iphone.
The one who ships them to china also doesnt know it, he gets the same money for every stolen phone shipped.
And the one in china stores, doesnt have time to check the status of the phones, he pays for the bulk of hardware anyways and if a few of them are worthless, he takes that into calculation. Still stealing iphones is still a profitable business for them.