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Re:Stolen iPhones Will Be Even More Useless from iOS 18 Onwards by buzzerbetrayed on Friday September 13, 2024 @11:06PM (#41537186)
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

"Convincing everyone in the world to not commit crime" isn't a reasonable ask. What Apple did is actively working.

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Re:Stolen iPhones Will Be Even More Useless from iOS 18 Onwards by MBCook on Friday September 13, 2024 @11:12PM (#41537201)
Right. There is nothing preventing Samsung or Huawei or Google or anyone else from making a similar system for their phones if it works as intended.
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Re:Stolen iPhones Will Be Even More Useless from iOS 18 Onwards by toast0 on Friday September 13, 2024 @11:42PM (#41537311)
Afaik, they do have similar systems. I had to bypass the Samsung lock on my FIL's old phone, thankfully it was a phone that was possible to bypass because he didn't know his samsung account password (and didn't know he had one) and wasn't getting the reset mails either.
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Re:Stolen iPhones Will Be Even More Useless from iOS 18 Onwards by MBCook on Saturday September 14, 2024 @11:55AM (#41540632)
Oh that’s good to know. Thanks.
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