Maybe I'm clueless, but isn't Apple able to brick these phones by their serial numbers?
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Man Robbed After Buying 300 iPhones From Apple Fifth Avenue
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Yes which is why people saying it is an insurance scam make no sense to me. That'd never work.
Hey Joe, you gonna swing down to the apple store and pick up those 300 phones today?
Yea but I don't think foreign carriers honor the blacklist. I think it's even only recently when all the major US ones started the shared list.
EDIT: Or they sell them quickly enough or sell to people who have no sense to research the IMEIs
Forget the carriers. It's their OS, they can push any update they want and lock a specific phone.
Yah, I'm wondering that, too. Why would someone pay retail + his markup when you can just pay retail? The product is clearly available, so it's not a supply issue.
Never been to NYC myself. Must be weird being on shift at Apple Store selling phones and tablets at 3am in the morning. Who's buying that makes it worth it?
Apple didn’t smell anything fishy about someone purchasing 300 iPhones at one time? Especially since it is known that this person resells the iPhones through his own business?
An unnamed 27-year-old man who purchased 300 iPhones from Apple Fifth Avenue on Monday morning was robbed shortly after leaving the store, according to 1010Wins Radio in New York.
He was carrying 300 iPhone 13s in three bags and walking to his car at 1:45 a.m. when another car pulled up next to him. Two men jumped out and demanded that he hand over the bags. Not wanting to hand over 300 iPhones, the victim put up a fight and was ultimately punched in the face before thieves made off with one of the bags.
The bag contained 125 iPhones that were worth $95,000. Police said the man in question often made large iPhone purchases from the Fifth Avenue Store in order to resell them through his small business. It is not clear why he was making the purchase at 1:00 in the morning, nor whether he was specifically targeted based on past purchasing habits.
Apple's Fifth Avenue location is open 24 hours a day, allowing for the early morning purchases. Apple also had a Black Friday sale going on at the time, which the thieves may have been aware of.
The NYPD is investigating the robbery, and the victim was not seriously injured. A description of the suspects and their vehicles has not yet been released.
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Also, the people in the car that pulled up next to him must have known what was in the bags he was carrying. It seems that this was a heist
Right? Like how big are these bags that they fit 100 phones each? What am I missing?
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When iPhone 5S was released. I remember purchasing just one iPhone 5s in color gold at Fashion Show mall. After making the purchase Apple notified the mall security to escort people out to their cars safely. The mall security was making trips back to back to make sure people are going home safely with their iPhones.
300 iPhone 13‘s is 61.2kg - taking delivery in the early hours of the morning?
Something is rotten in Denmark. You can’t even order this many through official channels.
Something is rotten in Denmark. You can’t even order this many through official channels.
I would stray away from that type of blaming.
I left from a city where the equivalent of having 300 iPhones on you at 1am would be to have some nice shoes, earrings and ONE single iPhone of the year: burglars, thieves and schmucks can assault you for the shoes, rip the earrings apart seriously hurting the person and downright kill for that iPhone. Consequence? People go out with beaten shoes, no jewels and sometimes two sets of phones: a burner to give away in case while hiding the more valuable one.
Sometimes people still get killed, and sometimes people STILL blame the person… it’s all the same: having fancy things there is deemed dangerous as is buying 300 iPhones in NYC, just that it devolved to extreme levels.
That said, yeah, I agree with some here regarding dangerous cities and doing those types of weird businesses there. (Some allude to crime rates being low, but that’s not what the stats seem to say, I.e don’t do that in general and definitely not in California as a whole, Chicago, NY, etc)
Yes, it has, because it’s become *rare* these days. I’m not denying there’s been a crime spike either, it’s just not actually that big.
Think about it this way: if you have 1 of something and it increases by 1 it’s doubled, an increase of 100%, if you have 100 of something and it increases by 1 it’s an increase of 1% - same raw increase, vastly different percentage.
When crime was higher a spike of the amount we’ve had was negligible, that 1% increase, the same spike when crime is vastly lower is a much higher percentage increase. It’s also more shocking, so it generates more headlines, as a result. This is how statistics can be misleading and make it seem like crime is at high levels when it’s very much not
I bought my last MBA early AM at that store, it was handy to pick it up then when I wasnt busy
Mailware or a very severe bug in iOS or any third party app could potentially endanger the proper operation of all cellular networks in the world. For that reason alone Apple must be able to push critical security updates on every connected phone even without the users permission. They can suspend or delete any app or revoke the code signature of a specific app programmer. And they could also brick a stolen phone and send its GPS coordinates to the police.
