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Thieves rob DC Uber Eats driver, reject stolen android phone for not being iPhone (wjla.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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She said the robbers were bold taking her husband’s phone, but then giving it back because it wasn’t to their liking.

“They basically looked at that phone and was like ‘Oh, that’s an Android? We don’t want this. I thought it was an iPhone,’” she said.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Also doesn't even make sense since iPhones (honestly most phones now) are so well known to be easily remotely bricked by the owner, that stealing it offers little to no benefits.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

From what I understand, they can be disassembled, and some of their internal parts are valuable on the black market

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Quite a few of the major parts are now serialised and have to be assigned/tied to a device through an Apple service system - I forget what it’s called - so that scenario is becoming less profitable as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Oh, you’re totally right. But there are still a couple of parts that don’t, and they are still somewhat profitable. There are also some parts that robbers can sell off because others don’t know about that program, and they make some money off that too. Also, some robbers don’t know about all of this, so it still provides some extra motive to rob still.