Comment by Brajeshwar a year ago
Will this not increase the economic value of stealing iPhones?
Right now, in India, iPhone sales compete with used iPhones. With an option to unbrick phones, what methods are preventing a new market of “Chor-Bazaar for iPhones” (market for stolen iPhones)?
Then it's not a brick.
Why is the term "bricked" in the first place?
Because of the utterly dead properties of a brick. The whole point was a visceral image of just how not remotely recoverable under any circumstances, vs merely a little extra effort can recover.
An unformatted empty computer with no os is not a brick in the same way a cd player with no cd inserted is not a brick. It's still fully functional.
Okay, fine, but you're replying in the wrong spot. The point being made here is the difference between broken and locked, regardless of whether it's a little broken or very broken.
No, this is not adding a new version of resetting a device, it's just providing a mode where if your phone is bricked you don't need to find a computer and cable to get back to a working state if you're with someone else who has an iPhone.
The thing the limits the resale/theft value of an iPhone is activation lock - not the ability to reset the device. Resetting or restoring an iPhone does not remove activation lock, and this does not change that.
I am so happy to see a chor bazaar reference here. I got one of my antique SLR cameras from there!
Bricked as in doesn’t boot the OS, not bricked as in unable to be activated.