Incorrect...terrorists want to blow up OTHER people.
Let's not generalize.
Some are very considerate and also blow themselves up in the process.
Gotta meet those 50 promised virgins somehow.
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Apple Stores Removing Security Tethers From iPhone Display Models
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Let's not generalize.
Some are very considerate and also blow themselves up in the process.
Gotta meet those 50 promised virgins somehow.
I have no doubt there are ways to get those disabled phones working again, but it seems like a huge pain in the ass/risk to try to steal them from apple stores one at a time instead of, say, swiping them from someone who just leaves it on a table in bar or restaurant. Doesn't seem worth the effort risk to steal from the store.
[doublepost=1476464361][/doublepost]I'm all for this. Trying out the tethered phones in stores was second in annoyance to trying on sunglasses that have those huge security tags strapped to the middle of the frames. just absurd.
Cameras never stop ANYONE, and it will be a risk many a thief will consider taking as to weather or not the phones are disabled before being sent outside the country or wherever, surely they can sit in a faraday cage and wipe them without fear anyway? Seems to me like one utterly stupid decision by Cook and his team, but it's their money that will have to cover it, I doubt any insurance company will, and I hope they don't call the Police either in the UK seeing as they don't pay for it. You need to pay taxes for that...
just shows how cheap these things actually are folks. and how they're absolutely making a killing in profit on each sale.
That Apple store should be at least twice as big. Typical mall space for a store is too small.
The stores have a feature I use all the time. You walk in, pick up an item off the shelf, use the Apple Store app and scan its bar code, pay on the app with ApplePay, and walk out of the store with the thing in your hand, no bag, no receipt (it comes in Email). Hey, this is New York! How do they know I bought the thing when I walk out with it? I've never been stopped or questioned, they seem to have things in hand. They must have some invisible security thing going on somewhere?
They will put geofencing or bluetooth fencing on the phone and as soon as you are out of the store and down the hall the phone will no longer be usable and it will scream with no way to shut it down.
It won't be running a release version of iOS so the phone is effectively a brick if stolen.
It won't be running a release version of iOS so the phone is effectively a brick if stolen.
How do you know how much markup really is on the iphone? Or are you doing the hodge-podge "search ebay for parts" math?
Or maybe the user is using one of the many analytical reports produced by companies who know about these things?
I'm confused. Are you suggesting that people would steal it so they could de-solder the RAM on the logic board and then... add it to another phone? Because I'm pretty sure that even if you meant people would steal them for replacement RAM, that would be nigh unto impossible to get right.
Not sure if this has been discussed, but in regards to thieves stealing for replacement parts... is it possible that the demo models use slightly different variations of the parts (screen,battery, etc.) that wouldn't work with regular iPhone models? This would greatly reduce desire to risk stealing one of these.