They rip them apart and use the non-serialized components as repair parts. If apple didn’t try to overcharge for and restrict repair parts this would be less of a thing.
The devices in the apple store are not retail phones. They have special software that makes them dedicated trackers the second they leave the store’s perimeter.
It’s not a retail device, and it’s loaded with a store version of iOS. It’s tracked specifically to that apple store. Here is a recent article. The phones are designed to work while they’re connected to the apple store wifi and that’s it. You’d get more useful spare parts if you robbed people outside a nightclub.
Everything they stole is literally a tracker. So stupid.
They rip them apart and use the non-serialized components as repair parts. If apple didn’t try to overcharge for and restrict repair parts this would be less of a thing.
Aren’t a lot of the parts married together though? Like, you can’t just replace a fingerprint sensor without throwing errors.
Maybe in USDystopia, but the EU is going after Pear for that.
No, this is a thing because it’s lucrative. It’s also pretty quick and easy to disable a tracker if you have the right equipment.
The devices in the apple store are not retail phones. They have special software that makes them dedicated trackers the second they leave the store’s perimeter.
Do you have a source for that? Is it just an app?
It’s not a retail device, and it’s loaded with a store version of iOS. It’s tracked specifically to that apple store. Here is a recent article. The phones are designed to work while they’re connected to the apple store wifi and that’s it. You’d get more useful spare parts if you robbed people outside a nightclub.
TIL. That’s pretty neat.
Yes, but these can be disabled and the phones still used for parts.
They can only sell the battery and the speakers. The screen and the cameras are paired to the motherboard.
Phones have IMEI numbers
There is also the fact that Apple runs a massive p2p wireless network