Inside China's 'Stolen iPhone Building'

8 pseudolus 2 5/25/2025, 2:10:32 PM ft.com ↗

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pseudolus · 9h ago
xfactorial · 9h ago
One of the arguments to be made about locking components and enabling rapid software lock-in in case of theft to, precisely, break the economical incentive.

On the other hand, the trade-off of repairability, "right to repair" and all the things those businesses and people like Rossmann have been fighting for get affected by the component lock-in.

There must be some kind of middle ground: my bet should be full customer sign-out could then enable the parts to be re-used (anything else should render the device and its components unusable).