Apple sues Canadian recycling firm for reselling 100k devices, not destroying

Re:Apple sues Canadian recycling firm for reselling 100k dev... by Jon_Lowtek on Sunday October 04, 2020 @02:44PM (#24681288)

> The iPhone maker found 18% of devices shipped to GEEP were active on wireless carrier networks.

How is Apple able to get such numbers?

Edit: i am stupid - all Apple devices phone home because you must use apple services with apple devices. I was confused by the "wireless carrier network" part.

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Re:Apple sues Canadian recycling firm for reselling 100k dev... by judge2020 on Sunday October 04, 2020 @03:04PM (#24681451)

Based on the article it seems like they got the number from IMEI activations or something along those lines, not via phoning home to Apple-ran services (since then they could have gotten iPad numbers as well)

> While some devices like Wi-Fi iPads won’t show up on carrier networks, which Apple says makes the total number of stolen products higher.

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Re:Apple sues Canadian recycling firm for reselling 100k dev... by Jon_Lowtek on Sunday October 04, 2020 @03:19PM (#24681569)

activation lock is an apple ran service. At first i thought they got the data from the carriers and that sounded very ridiculous. That's what confused me.

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Re:Apple sues Canadian recycling firm for reselling 100k dev... by baybal2 on Sunday October 04, 2020 @03:32PM (#24681654)

> How is Apple able to get such numbers?

Because iphones OTA software has a hidden feature that "phones home" with serial number.

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