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Re:Older iPhones Bricked for Being Too Outdated – Locking Us... by zimpenfish on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @07:39AM (#34079920)
> he will still get some money for it from a fence.

From my understanding of the activation lock, the phone is effectively bricked - no-one can ever use it again. No fence is going to pay for a useless device.

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Re:Older iPhones Bricked for Being Too Outdated – Locking Us... by grishka on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @07:45AM (#34079986)
The motherboard is useless. The rest of the parts can still be resold.
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Re:Older iPhones Bricked for Being Too Outdated – Locking Us... by szdva on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @08:23AM (#34080380)
Thankfully Apple is working on that by pairing the parts to the motherboard and showing error messages if they don't match.
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Re:Older iPhones Bricked for Being Too Outdated – Locking Us... by grishka on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @08:41AM (#34080588)
That's one way of looking at it. Another one is that it complicates DIY repairs.
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Re:Older iPhones Bricked for Being Too Outdated – Locking Us... by rekoil on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @07:59AM (#34080124)
But it lowers the incentive significantly regardless.
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Re:Older iPhones Bricked for Being Too Outdated – Locking Us... by nunez on Thursday December 22, 2022 @12:19AM (#34090109)
the lucrative parts (screen, camera arrays) are serialized and will not work on phones other than the one they were built for

almost everything else is soldered onto the logic board and is futile to transfer

so i think that stolen iphones with activation lock are 100% paperweights.

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