fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoOne iPhone led police to gang who sent 40,000 snatched phones to Chinawww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1254arrow-down14
arrow-up1250arrow-down1external-linkOne iPhone led police to gang who sent 40,000 snatched phones to Chinawww.bbc.comfne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square20fedilink
minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·3 months agoWouldn’t it be easier to steal them in China? It’s where most of them come from after all.
minus-squarechonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoI wouldn’t be surprised if they had guards armed with SMGs and full body armour guarding the shipments as they leave the factory. Since Apple shrunk the packaging they could probably fit a million iPhones in one shipping container. Think how much that’d be worth!
minus-squaremojofrododojo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoThere’s a pixar film here where a phone get sent to the US, but misses it’s manufacturer and like the one ring leaps from owner to thief to fence to reseller in china…
Wouldn’t it be easier to steal them in China? It’s where most of them come from after all.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they had guards armed with SMGs and full body armour guarding the shipments as they leave the factory.
Since Apple shrunk the packaging they could probably fit a million iPhones in one shipping container. Think how much that’d be worth!
There’s a pixar film here where a phone get sent to the US, but misses it’s manufacturer and like the one ring leaps from owner to thief to fence to reseller in china…