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Detrytus on Nov 12, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: You Paid $1k for an iPhone, but Apple Still Contro...

But those were brand new iPhones, not activated, and therefore not locked...

cantSpellSober on Nov 12, 2023 [–]

...and Apple presumably have the IMEIs.

Another easy example:

> In the UK in 2016, there were almost half a million mobile phones stolen [...] _most of them iPhones_

https://www.trustonic.com/opinion/smartphone-crime-turning-t...

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