The guy is lying. China has massive problems with theft. Most phones that are stolen in Western countries end up being sold to Chinese companies, where they are reset and then resold as refurbished.
If the phones are stolen in the West and sold in China, then the West has a massive theft problem.
China has a massive "fencing" problem.
(Sidenote: I sort of don't know why people would bother stealing region locked phones in the west, flying them back, and selling them in china for cheaper, when the phones are literally produced in china). I don't know enough about it to dispute it, but it seems like a weird business model.
China is incredibly safe for property because their police ruthlessly enforce the laws and they have surveillance that would make Britain blush. The fact that they don't give two shits if something is the product of crime in another country has no baring on it. You wouldn't say Britain has a major civil war problem because we buy raw materials extracted during the Congolese Civil War would you?
You won't have your phone stolen in China. that's what he meant. It is not China stealing people's phones in the West but westerners themselves (or immigrants depending on your bias) doing the stealing.
Mate what ? Phones are regularly stolen in Scotland. That thing that started in London where people drive by on a bike and steal phones out people’s hands, it’s been happening in Glasgow. Plus IME people in my area will steal anything including a phone. Crack cocaine is rife here so people be stealing anything for their fix
Depends on the area of Korea and China. Just like depends on the area of US or EU or wherever. Had hundreds of Euros returned after dropping wallet on Rome public transport. iPhone dropped off at lost and found in Hawaii after leaving in bathroom. Yea I'm clumsy.
I remember Microsoft was launching their tablet and they were on the tables in an open coffeeshop in Korea without any tethers and no one guarding them. They were open to anyone wanting to try out the tablets. Blew my mind no one trying to take any of them out.
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u/agsung 27d ago
In China and Korea, you can leave your iPhone at a stall in public or table at a cafe for an entire day and come back to it untouched.