That’s a good approach for a single device. But for millions it’s not as good. Apples current approach significantly reduces theft and the industry around theft of their phones.
There would be an excuse that your using your friends components to fix the phone. But they didn’t deregister it. It would be enough to create a viable business.
Repairers could use stolen parts and the owner wouldn’t know until apple locked their device.
It can be stopped by controlling the internet traffic to the device. Various methods, even simple DNS systems. Especially in developing economy organised crime can get cooperation with phone networks to do this.
For organised crime this problems can be worked out. But it very difficult to workaround a whitelist of only one part.
Other manufacturers don’t have the same issue as their phones don’t last as long. Nor do they have as high a resale value. Old iPhones still sell well 5+ years after release.
Google will give you big discounts for trading in iPhones that were cheaper than pixels when released when they won’t offer you anything but recycling for an equivalent year pixel. All because the iPhone resale value remains so high.
Obviously you’d ask your friends to deregister the part before giving it to you.
And if they already have methods to control internet traffic and prevent the devices from pinging their location why wouldn’t they directly sell the entire phone?
That’s a good approach for a single device. But for millions it’s not as good. Apples current approach significantly reduces theft and the industry around theft of their phones.
Why would it not be good? Doesn’t Find my iPhone already work with the whole network?
There would be an excuse that your using your friends components to fix the phone. But they didn’t deregister it. It would be enough to create a viable business.
Repairers could use stolen parts and the owner wouldn’t know until apple locked their device.
It can be stopped by controlling the internet traffic to the device. Various methods, even simple DNS systems. Especially in developing economy organised crime can get cooperation with phone networks to do this.
For organised crime this problems can be worked out. But it very difficult to workaround a whitelist of only one part.
Other manufacturers don’t have the same issue as their phones don’t last as long. Nor do they have as high a resale value. Old iPhones still sell well 5+ years after release.
Google will give you big discounts for trading in iPhones that were cheaper than pixels when released when they won’t offer you anything but recycling for an equivalent year pixel. All because the iPhone resale value remains so high.
Obviously you’d ask your friends to deregister the part before giving it to you.
And if they already have methods to control internet traffic and prevent the devices from pinging their location why wouldn’t they directly sell the entire phone?