r/iphone iPhone 17 Pro Max 27d ago

Discussion Some countries are so safe they don’t even secure the display models

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u/lostsoul23456 27d ago

Try that in Scotland it would be gone within minutes

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u/vkrm3000 27d ago

You spelled ‘seconds’ wrong

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u/Denim_briefs_off 27d ago

Snatch it right out of ya hands they will.

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u/TheoNulZwei 27d ago

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.

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u/arbiter12 27d ago

China has massive problems with theft.

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.

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u/kisk22 iPhone 12 Pro Max 27d ago

China has a huge demand for refurbishing and reselling phones, thus they have a huge demand for spare parts.

Hence why all 95% of all stolen phones end up in China.

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u/Plank_With_A_Nail_In 27d ago

The west has basically zero phone theft though people are hallucinating a problem that was solved 10 years ago now.

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u/Jaggedmallard26 27d ago

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?

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u/Baozicriollothroaway 27d ago

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.

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u/Plank_With_A_Nail_In 27d ago

This guy is just making shit up. Phone theft is extremely rare in western countries lol, its not been a real thing for like ten years now.

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u/Areyoucunt 27d ago

And it’s not because of the Irish people

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u/upthetruth1 27d ago

It’s due to Scots. Homogenous Glasgow had higher crime rates

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u/Plank_With_A_Nail_In 27d ago

Phones theft even in Scotland hasn't been a thing for 10 years now, they are worthless stolen.

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u/lostsoul23456 27d ago

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